COMPANY INFORMATION
Company Profile
Trade Name
Kinseido Publishing Co., Ltd.
President and CEO
Masato Fukuoka
Establishment
September 17, 1918
Capital
10,000,000 yen
Location
3-21 Kanda Jimbo-cho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0051
Telephone
03-3263-3828 (Sales Department)
History
Masato Fukuoka became CEO of Kinseido Publishing Co., Ltd.
Kinseido launched CheckLink, our first e-learning platform.
Kinseido launched the online VELC Test ® — Visualizing English Language Competency Test — for university students. We delivered 34,000 tests in 2019.
Kinseido first published the innovative Clover Series, designed to support teachers with remedial classes.
Kinseido became an Associate Member of JALT (Japanese Association of Language Teachers).
First published texts using news from America’s ABC News. Published annually for 35 years.
First printing of Polite Fictions — Why Japanese and Americans seem rude to each other — also still in print.
Kinseido published The Crucible by Arthur Miller, which we still have in print.
Kinseido published our first English language reader, W.S. Maugham’s Cosmopolitans, still in print 70 years later.
Kinseido became a member of the Language Laboratory Association of Japan (LLA) [now The Japan Association for Language Education and Technology (LET)].
Yasuo Fukuoka, our second CEO, started publishing English and Chinese textbooks for college and junior college students.
Kinseido was established by Masuo Fukuoka, our current CEO’s grandfather, as a literary publisher. Famed novelist Katai Tayama suggested Kinsei (=Venus) as our company name. Tayama’s calligraphy work is to this day printed on our company boxes.
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2009
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2008
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2012
Kinseido launched E-Space, our comprehensive yet easy to use online order, reservations and inspection copy request service.
Published literary works by young writers, such as Kan Kikuchi and Taruho Inagaki.
Published The Izu Dancer by Yasunari Kawabata, first-ever Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.
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2017
We launched plus+Media, our video and audio streaming and download platform.
Kinseido Publishing celebrated its 100th anniversary on September 17th.
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2018
Present
Kinseido specializes in publishing university textbooks, many with digital/online support.
Kinseido launches a new English-only website to support non-Japanese teachers: www.kinseido-elt.com
Kinseido's Mission
Our mission is to create and publish the most effective solutions
for university-level teachers and students in Japan.
Line of Business
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Language books
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College, junior college, high school level English and Chinese textbooks
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Studies of English language and British and American literature
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English and Chinese general books
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English and Chinese dictionaries
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Language audiovisual aids
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