Print book, magazine sales in Japan below 1 tril. yen, 1st time since 1975

Estimated sales of physical books and magazines in Japan in 2025 dipped below 1 trillion yen ($6.4 billion) for the first time in five decades, falling 4.1 percent from a year earlier to 964.7 billion yen, a recent study showed.Print sales have been on a downward trend since hitting a peak of 2.66 trillion yen in 1996. Even when combined with digital media sales, the total fell for the fourth straight year in 2025, down 1.6 percent to an estimated 1.55 trillion yen, according to the Research Institute for Publications.Physical magazine sales in 2025 slipped 10.0 percent to 370.8 billion yen…READ FULL ARTICLE