Japan’s Asahi Shimbun traces the history of publisher Viz Media, giving much of the credit for manga’s popularity in the United States to company co-founder and chairman Seiji Horibuchi.

It’s fairly dry as profiles go, but it’s interesting to read about Viz’s early difficulties in penetrating the American market — namely, comics specialty shops — and its move into bookstores.

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