Back to the newsprint future

By Joshua Benton / Oct. 16, 2008 / 5:02 p.m.

I thought Japan was supposed to be the future, not the past: A survey says 90 percent of Japanese say newspapers will be an important news source in the future, and 76 percent say they use newspapers regularly to get news.

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