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This publishing success would not impress the Japanese. Each month 680 poetry magazines with a combined circulation of 240,000 are printed in Japan. Toyo Keizai, a sort of Japanese Wall Street Journal, runs a haiku assortment every week. Hototogisu (Cuckoo), a haiku magazine founded in 1897, claims a substantial though private monthly circulation of 20,000. Japan's 500,000 practicing poets can win prize money from most of the metropolitan newspapers and from the Emperor himself. They write in all the classic forms, but the simple 17-syllable haiku, usually arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern...
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