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A man spending his break on reading a novel outside a Tokyo fish market.

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Survey: 52% didn’t read in past month

Fifty-two percent of people have not read a single book in the past month, an increase of three percentage points from last year and ticking over 50 percent for the first time in two years, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey.

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