Take any book that is published in English and Japanese or Chinese and you will note that the book is about 1/3rd the size of the English original. Those langua

Take any book that is published in English and Japanese or Chinese and you will note that the book is about 1/3rd the size of the English original. Those languages are denser than English or any European language for that matter. Native readers of those languages are accustomed to seeing more information in a page space. So design follows their tolerance.