Paid Circulation of Daily Newspaper per Household in Japan
In Japan, four fifth households subscribe newspapers. The following table shows the statistics of "copy per household" and "population per copy".
Number of Publish | Population per copy | Copy per household | |
Total | 46,999,468 | 2.69 | 0.86 |
Tokyo | 5,137,672 | 2.48 | 0.80 |
Osaka | 3,504,451 | 2.48 | 0.88 |
Hokkaido | 1,985,551 | 2.74 | 0.74 |
Aomori | 482,322 | 2.84 | 0.83 |
Iwate | 394,715 | 3.32 | 0.77 |
Miyagi | 673,886 | 3.42 | 0.72 |
Akita | 384,594 | 2.79 | 0.91 |
Yamagata | 424,865 | 2.71 | 1.05 |
Fukushima | 688,583 | 2.86 | 0.92 |
Ibaraki | 1,111,962 | 2.65 | 0.96 |
Tochigi | 767,917 | 2.58 | 0.99 |
Gunma | 857,802 | 2.31 | 1.09 |
Saitama | 2,597,405 | 2.76 | 0.86 |
Chiba | 2,279,308 | 2.69 | 0.86 |
Kanagawa | 3,233,470 | 2.76 | 0.80 |
Niigata | 763,681 | 3.08 | 0.88 |
Toyama | 433,481 | 2.50 | 1.09 |
Ishikawa | 477,281 | 2.41 | 1.05 |
Fukui | 301,196 | 2.65 | 1.09 |
Yamanashi | 336,317 | 2.53 | 0.98 |
Nagano | 860,438 | 2.48 | 1.04 |
Gifu | 769,986 | 2.67 | 1.01 |
Shizuoka | 1,325,254 | 2.82 | 0.90 |
Aichi | 2,674,810 | 2.72 | 0.90 |
Shiga | 532,731 | 2.62 | 1.00 |
Triple | 697,586 | 2.62 | 0.94 |
Kyoto | 1,061,557 | 2.39 | 0.93 |
Nara | 630,709 | 2.21 | 1.11 |
Wakayama | 425,896 | 2.37 | 0.98 |
Hyogo | 2,230,140 | 2.50 | 0.93 |
Tottori | 243,079 | 2.40 | 1.06 |
Okayama | 683,702 | 2.82 | 0.85 |
Hiroshima | 1,017,103 | 2.79 | 0.82 |
Shimane | 285,928 | 2.48 | 1.02 |
Yamaguchi | 641,525 | 2.24 | 0.99 |
Tokushima | 301,723 | 2.59 | 0.93 |
Kagawa | 380,230 | 2.64 | 0.91 |
Ehime | 493,688 | 2.90 | 0.77 |
Kochi | 237,499 | 3.17 | 0.68 |
Fukuoka | 1,834,823 | 2.75 | 0.82 |
Saga | 273,086 | 3.11 | 0.86 |
Nagasaki | 444,122 | 3.20 | 0.72 |
Kumamoto | 484,637 | 3.75 | 0.65 |
Much | 399,707 | 2.98 | 0.77 |
Miyazaki | 370,850 | 3.07 | 0.73 |
Kagoshima | 447,902 | 3.78 | 0.56 |
Okinawa | 363,080 | 3.94 | 0.62 |
Figure 1: Copy per household
Figure 2: Population per copy
It seems newspaper is popular in the central Japan. Unfortunately newspaper is not popular in Kyushu (western region) and Miyagi.
Source is Nihon Shinbun Kyokai (NSK), The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association.
www.pressnet.or.jp/data/circulation/circulation01.php
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