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With the cooperation of the All Nippon Amusement Machine Operators' Amusement Union (AOU; Shozo Irie, Chairman) and the Nihon Shopping Center Amusement Park Operators Association (NSA; Hiroshi Uchida, Chairman), JAMMA conducted its annual fact-finding survey on the FY1997 Amusement Industry, the fifth of such surveys so far. To understand the most recent conditions in the amusement industry, the survey covered the period from June to August. It targeted 1,286 companies engaged in the manufacturing, sale, and operation of commercial-use amusement machines as well as makers of game machines for home use, and data was compiled from the 375 companies that responded. Survey Results Market scale of the amusement machine industry in FY1997 was 1,954.5 billion yen (an increase of 11.9% over the previous year). The breakdown was as follows. AM industry market scale
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