It can be seen from these figures that cultural facilities are concentrated in densely populated cities, and the opportunities for education are unequal. There are 825 public libraries with 25,056,5438+0,308 books (including 2,084,7 children's books). The number of registered borrowers in one year is 1,185,300. In addition,13,420,222 books were lent out of the library. Compared with other countries, there are 8309 public libraries in the United States; British 562, 1, 780 branch, Soviet Union 135, 72 1. Asia: India 1, 211; Indonesia 1 634; Israel. . . There are 674 national, public and private university libraries in Japan. In addition, there are 353 short-term university libraries and 59 college libraries. Libraries with a large number of books are: Northeastern University 1 0,023,290 volumes; University of Tokyo, volume 632,003; Next are Hiroshima University, hitotsubashi university, Tokyo University of Education and Kyoto University. The public ones are: osaka city university 687, 8 of which are the most outstanding.