The survey subjects include all paper business establishments excluding handmade paper. Communication paper includes manifold base paper, business form paper, paper for plain paper copy and recording paper. Inventory volume is defined as the quantity of products produced or received by the surveyed establishments which are actually stored in the warehouses and rental warehouses which the surveyed establishments mainly use.
Values have been rounded. Data prior to 2016 come from previous reports.
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Communication paper stock volume in Japan 2012-2020
In 2020, the inventory volume of paper used for communication in Japan amounted to approximately * thousand tons. This represented a decrease from an inventory volume of around *** thousand tons in 2012.
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METI (Japan). (May 28, 2021). Inventory volume of paper used for communication in Japan from 2012 to 2020 (in 1,000 tons) [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 26, 2026, from /statistics/778978/japan-communication-paper-stock-volume/
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