There are estimated to be over 30,000 private schools teaching the abacus in Japan, a small town in Hyougo County devoted to the manufacture of abacuses has a nationally-recognized master abacus craftsman, and a 1600-page dictionary of the abacus can be bought in bookstores.
日本珠算補習班據估計在三萬家以上，兵庫縣有個以算盤製造為主的小鎮，國家選有做手工算盤的民族藝師，書店有一千六百頁的珠算字典。