{"id":5873,"date":"2003-03-25T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/03\/25\/japan-times-introduces-manga\/"},"modified":"2003-03-25T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-25T14:21:00","slug":"japan-times-introduces-manga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/japan-times-introduces-manga\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times Introduces Manga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/getarticle.pl5?fl20030323a1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Japan Times<\/a> has published an exhaustive English language article introducing the history and current condition of manga in Japan. The article mentions that comics still make up 38.1% of all printed material sold in Japan annually, but for the seventh consecutive year, sales of manga magazines has decreased. As has been cited numerous times before, Japan&#8217;s manga magazine publishers blame decreased sales on Japan&#8217;s used bookstores while the used bookstores blame publishers&#8217; unreasonable expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsservice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Times has published an exhaustive English language article introducing the history and current condition of manga in Japan. The article mentions that comics still make up 38.1% of all printed material sold in Japan annually, but for the seventh consecutive year, sales of manga magazines has decreased. As has been cited numerous times [&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-5873","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\/5873","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=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}