{"id":22407,"date":"2010-07-14T14:35:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=22407"},"modified":"2010-07-14T14:35:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T18:35:12","slug":"sasuga-calls-it-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/sasuga-calls-it-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasuga Calls it Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sasuga_Closes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sasuga_Closes-450x247.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sasuga_Closes\" width=\"450\" height=\"247\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sasuga_Closes-450x247.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sasuga_Closes-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Sasuga_Closes.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cambridge, Massachusetts based Sasuga Japanese Bookstore announced last week that it has ceased operations as a result of &#8220;the current economic climate&#8221; and &#8220;changes in the international bookselling market&#8221; (presumably including consumers increasingly importing Japanese books and similar goods directly from retailers based in Japan instead of relying on American import companies). Sasuga was founded in 1993 and was a well known presence at major nationwide anime conventions.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2010-07-14\/sasuga-japanese-bookstore-closes-its-doors-for-good\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambridge, Massachusetts based Sasuga Japanese Bookstore announced last week that it has ceased operations as a result of &#8220;the current economic climate&#8221; and &#8220;changes in the international bookselling market&#8221; (presumably including consumers increasingly importing Japanese books and similar goods directly from retailers based in Japan instead of relying on American import companies). Sasuga was founded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22409,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22407\/revisions\/22409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}