'Manga' titled 'One Piece' enjoys unprecedented popularity

TOKYO, Japan - Copies of the latest 56th volume of the ''manga'' comic titled ''One Piece'' are put on sale Dec. 4, 2009, at Forest in Kinokuniya bookstore's main office in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.

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