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Season 4 Episode 32: A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words

Crammed together are magazines and novels, art books and technical treatises. In an era of increasing Internet book sales, streams of people are drawn to actual bookstores, in search of unexpected encounters. The bestsellers on display provide a glimpse of contemporary Japan. Books teaching "self-improvement" attract crowds of office workers on their way home; other shoppers, worn out by the daily grind, find themselves in the "spirituality" book section. All are wanderers in a forest of print.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

17

Episodes:

490

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

2006

IMDb:

8.7