Yoshinobu Noma

Kodansha Ltd. provides publishing services. Its business areas include comic publishing, book publishing, magazine publishing and digital content business. The firm’s book publishing business provides paperback series, hardcover and trade non-fiction, hardcover and trade fiction, lifestyle and hobbies, entertainment, children’s books and reference books and its magazine publishing business handles the production of general interest, fashion and beauty, literary, special focus, juvenile and sports and hobby magazines. The company was founded by Seiji Noma in November 1909 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Nippan Group Holdings, Inc. engages in the publication and sale of books, magazines, textbooks and teaching materials. It also copyrights, produces, leases and sells video and audio software. The company was founded on September 10, 1949 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.