In Washington, the Library of Congress holds 173 million documents on over 500 miles of shelving. Founded in 1800, this US ...

the Culture Museum displays Japanese arts and culture, with a focus on books and manga. Walk up to the fourth floor and see the impressive ‘bookshelf theatre’, a library with 8m-high shelves ...

The prose is diaristic and hyper-casual — the tone of much contemporary Japanese ... Her library is not an enchanted domain fragranced with the smell of books (which, I will remind you, is ...

A "library pharmacy" section lined with books in "yomigusuri" (reading medicine ... our staff to help connect the circle of people." (Japanese original by Atsuhisa Kato, Wakayama Bureau) ...

However, books are no longer part of the norm for most people. More than 60 percent of Japanese do not read a single book over the course of a month, according to the “public opinion survey on ...