Japanese Spend More Time on Internet than Reading Newspapers

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People in Japan spend an average of 37 minutes a day using the internet (up from 32 min in 2004) while newspaper reading is down from 33 minutes to 31. This according to Japan's National Institute of Information & Communications Technology annual survey.

There are age differences with 13-19 year olds averaging 108 minutes online and, those 60+ spending 58 minutes reading printed newspapers and 51 minutes surfing the web. Watching TV however remains the most popular activity with 3 hrs. 31 mins a day.

via: JapanToday and Yahoo News

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