Quarterly data from the Japan Magazine Publishers Association (JMPA), published earlier this month, shows that the magazine’s verified average circulation was 1,915,000 copies for the first three months of 2017.
Weekly Shounen Jump, the number one best-selling manga magazine in Japan, has fallen below 2 million copies in circulation for the first time in 40 years.
The latest circulation number represents a 4.5-percent drop over the previous quarter and is less than one-third of the magazine…