The 2010 NSK circulation survey reports that aggregate daily newspaper circulation in Japan dropped for a sixth straight year to 49,321,840 (copies) as of October, down 2.0 percent from the year earlier, and slipping below 50 million for the first time since 1987. The margin of the year-on-year decline was 1,030,991, marking a second consecutive annual drop of over one million.
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