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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
51 Éditions Gallimard 1.2k 46.3 100.0% Publishing
52 Glénat 1k 31.3 63.0% Publishing
53 Albin Michel 968 30.8 64.9% Publishing
54 Little, Brown and Company 811 45.2 75.3% Publishing
55 Panini Comics 810 28.6 33.4% Publishing
56 St. Martin's Press 787 27.7 64.5% Publishing
57 Ballantine Books 771 43.4 54.2% Publishing
58 Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors 752 33.6 69.8% Publishing
59 Random House 733 25.1 72.4% Publishing
60 HarperCollins 701 27.1 65.8% Publishing
61 Dark Horse Comics 691 27.3 67.9% Publishing
62 Suhrkamp Verlag 679 39.8 73.9% Publishing
63 Penguin Random House 638 26.6 58.4% Publishing
64 Center for Talented Youth 630 28.6 66.6% Publishing
65 Tor Books 617 30.0 58.0% Publishing
66 Gallimard Jeunesse 617 42.6 69.1% Publishing
67 Barnes & Noble 597 33.9 59.1% Publishing
68 Goldmann (publisher) 580 44.3 86.0% Publishing
69 Librería Porrúa 570 35.5 64.9% Publishing
70 Titan Books 561 33.7 32.7% Publishing
71 Penguin Books 531 25.8 55.8% Publishing
72 Simon & Schuster 504 26.7 58.1% Publishing
73 Delcourt 479 31.3 62.8% Publishing
74 Oncology Nursing Society 456 37.4 60.0% Publishing
75 American Society of Landscape Architects 443 42.2 60.2% 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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