{"id":7703,"date":"2004-08-30T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T15:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/30\/anime-otaku-account-for-less-than-2-of-japanese-natives\/"},"modified":"2004-08-30T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T15:57:00","slug":"anime-otaku-account-for-less-than-2-of-japanese-natives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/anime-otaku-account-for-less-than-2-of-japanese-natives\/","title":{"rendered":"Anime Otaku Account for Less than 2% of Japanese Natives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Asahi Newspaper has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/english\/business\/TKY200408250164.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> the results of a study by Nomura Research Institute which determined that there are an estimated 2.8 million otaku in Japan, which accounts for roughly 2% of the Japanese population. The study defined and categorized &#8220;otaku&#8221; as intensely devoted fans of four different fields: manga, anime, video games, and idol singers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/article.php?id=5402\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asahi Newspaper has reported the results of a study by Nomura Research Institute which determined that there are an estimated 2.8 million otaku in Japan, which accounts for roughly 2% of the Japanese population. The study defined and categorized &#8220;otaku&#8221; as intensely devoted fans of four different fields: manga, anime, video games, and idol [&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-7703","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\/7703","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=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}