Our parent company, Shogakukan Inc. (http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/) was first established on 8 August 1922, as a publishing house that specialised in educational magazines for elementary school children and teachers in Japan. Over the years, Shogakukan gradually expanded both its scale and its range of publications in order to cater to the various needs of its readers from different age-groups and demographics.

Today, Shogakukan is one of the leading publishers of manga and other publications in Japan, publishing more than 60 magazines, 8,000 books, 13,000 manga books, 800 magazine-books, and 4,000 DVDs each year (as of 2013).

With a strong foothold in the Japanese market, Shogakukan has been vigorously trying to expand its overseas businesses by establishing business bases in San Francisco, Paris, Shanghai, and Taiwan. With the significant growth and development of Asian countries in recent years, Shogakukan sees a huge potential in the Asian market and the need for a more aggressive Asian strategy.