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Company name:
SHOGAKUKAN Inc.
Founded:
August 8, 1922
Capital:
147 million yen
Representative director & president:
Nobuhiro Oga
Business operations:
Magazine & book publishing, etc.
Employees:
696 (as of March 1, 2023)

Corporate History

Shogakukan, founded in 1922, began by launching educational magazines targeting elementary school children. Currently, while expanding from children's magazines to the general magazine field, it has also become a general publishing company with a book division that releases picture books, illustrated guides, dictionaries, encyclopedias, literary works, among many others.


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