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Document 72 Hours: Season 2014

2014x20 A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words

  • 2014-10-07T12:30:00Z on NHK
  • 30m
  • Japan
  • Japanese
  • Documentary
Crammed together are magazines and novels, art books and technical treatises. In an era of increasing Internet book sales, stream of people are drawn to actual bookstores, in search of unexpected encounters. The bestsellers on display provide a glimpse of contemporary Japan. Books teaching "self-improvement" attract crowds of office workers on their way home; other shoppers, worn out by the daily grind, find themselves in the "spirituality" book section. All are wanderers in a forest of print.
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