Japan’s Video Sales Up for 1st Time in 5 Years in 2011

Overall home video sales rose 5.3% non-kids anime rose 7.6%, due mainly to BDs. On September 18, the Japan Video Software Association announced its survey results on Japanese video software sales from January to June of 2011. The overall market, which includes DVDs and Blu-ray Discs (BDs) but not UMDs, amounted to 125.640 billion yen (about US$1.6434 billion). […]