"The General conference of Unesco decided to convene a series of regional conferences on the promotion and distribution of books, the first of which, on Asia, was held in Tokyo from 25th to 31st May 1966. The present document presents a report on this conference (pp. 5-32), dealing with the problems of book promotion in Asia - Estimation of the requirements of the region, production and distribution, international circulation of books, training, research and professional associations. The second part of this work gives the principal points of the main working document of the conference, presenting a statistical analysis of the present situation in Asia as well as forecasts of future needs." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1826, topic code 19)