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Books outsell magazines at major wholesaler for 1st time in 32 yrs

Photo taken Jan. 22, 2016, in Tokyo shows some of Japan's bestseller novels in 2015. Nippon Shuppan Hanbai Inc., a major Japanese wholesale bookseller, has said its unconsolidated book sales in fiscal 2015 through March 2016 grew slightly from the previous year to 247.6 billion yen ($2.42 billion), exceeding magazine sales for the first time in 32 years. The solid book sales were attributed to a number of hit novels including Akutagawa Prize-winning "Hibana" (Spark, C) by comedian Naoki Matayoshi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo