Japan is the second largest market for publishing books in the world — a fact that probably comes as no surprise to people living in Japan who only need to throw a stone to hit a bookshop. Foreign authors looking to publish in Japan may look at this and think they have a great chance of making their way into the literary scene. If they’re writing in English, they aren’t entirely wrong — [...]
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