"Demon Slayer" helps Japan print sales see smallest drop since 2006

Sales of print books and magazines in Japan fell 1.0 percent from the previous year in 2020, the smallest decline since 2006 thanks to comic book sales of the hit manga series "Demon Slayer," a publications research body said Monday.Sales of print publications amounted to an estimated 1.22 trillion yen ($11.76 billion) last year, down for the 16th straight year, but the final volume of the blockbuster series released last December cushioned the fall, according to the Research Institute for Publications in Tokyo.In 2019, sales of print publications declined 4.3 percent from a year earlier.Ac…READ FULL ARTICLE