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Funding and governance of library and information services for visually impaired people: international case studies

Part2:Country studies

Japan

Funding sources and adequacy

Almost all the funding is covered by independent revenue sources of municipalities.

Unfortunately there are no statistics on the amount of total funding.

Funding is decreasing considerably. The Japanese Library Association notes that it has fallen well below its expectation.

One of the background factors has been the long period of low growth suffered by the economy. Another factor is that in Japan there is originally a problem of lack of understanding for the reason why libraries exist.