Japan continues to defy the downward trend of newspapers evident in other advanced economies.
Newsprint circulations remain enormous in high-tech Japan - and one publisher has even resorted to medieval methods to ensure copies reach readers.
When the March 2011 tsunami struck, leaving 19,000 people dead or missing and triggering the Fukushima nuclear disaster, it also submerged the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun's presses.
The 14,000-circulation paper had the biggest story of its 100-year existence on its doorstep, but no way of printing it.
So its reporters did what monks in European monasteries once did with the bible by copying out their stories by hand. (guardian.co.uk)
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