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Top 100 Publishings in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest publishings in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 129 publishings tracked in Japan, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Transworld Publishers, Long Man and Kosmos (publisher) lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 688k people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 16k, and the largest, Transworld Publishers, reaches around 250k people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each publishing, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Japan, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Japan. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Transworld Publishers 250k 33.4 70.5% Publishing
2 Long Man 222k 29.8 76.7% Publishing
3 Kosmos (publisher) 216k 33.5 74.2% Publishing
4 Association for Computing Machinery 148k 30.8 61.6% Publishing
5 Springer Nature 97k 46.1 0.0% Publishing
6 Institution of Civil Engineers 69k 30.0 43.4% Publishing
7 American Psychological Association 52k 39.0 65.6% Publishing
8 BMJ 51k 38.9 67.1% Publishing
9 Pottermore 49k 26.6 70.2% Publishing
10 Society for Neuroscience 46k 38.1 63.1% Publishing
11 Hobby Japan 33k 24.6 4.5% Publishing
12 LexisNexis 31k 37.3 56.1% Publishing
13 Taylor & Francis 28k 43.2 13.7% Publishing
14 Harper (publisher) 25k 45.5 76.4% Publishing
15 Hachette (publisher) 23k 34.4 38.7% Publishing
16 Hay House 22k 34.2 67.8% Publishing
17 Doubleday (publisher) 22k 38.1 100.0% Publishing
18 DC Comics 20k 30.4 58.1% Publishing
19 Taschen 19k 32.1 83.8% Publishing
20 Blurb 19k 26.9 56.4% Publishing
21 Pocket Books 17k 26.0 57.1% Publishing
22 Thames & Hudson 12k 27.0 46.9% Publishing
23 Bloomsbury Publishing 12k 33.1 92.1% Publishing
24 Royal Society of Chemistry 11k 23.8 89.9% Publishing
25 Faber and Faber 9.8k 36.8 66.9% Publishing

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan and ranks each publishing by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest publishing in Japan?

Transworld Publishers currently leads with an estimated audience of 250k people in Japan.

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