July 1946
Toyokuni Printing Co., Ltd. incorporated on July 23rd
Shoichi Noma appointed company president
Printing starts inside Kodansha Main Building in Otowa, Bunkyo ward
May 1950
Takuro Hasegawa appointed company president
May 1951
Ryukichi Shibuya appointed company president
June 1958
Junji Hamada appointed company president
March 1959
Company office building moved to Otsuka 6-chome, Bunkyo ward
October 1959
Toyokuni Phototype Co., Ltd. incorporated in 6-chome, Bunkyo ward
Production of Weekly Shonen Magazine begins
May 1964
Construction of Toyokuni Phototype Co., Ltd. company office building completed in Tabata 4-chome, Kita ward; offices moved
October 1970
Toyokuni Offset Co., Ltd. incorporated in Oi-machi, Iruma district, Saitama
prefecture (present-day Fujimino city, Saitama prefecture)
December 1970
Construction of new offset printing site completed
July 1971
Kodansha Bunko launched using phototypesetting and offset printing
October 1979
Teiji Saito appointed company president
May 1985
Mitsuo Otsubo appointed company president
October 1985
Toyokuni Printing Co., Ltd., Toyokuni Phototype Co., Ltd., and Toyokuni Offset Co., Ltd. merge and become Toyokuni Printing Co., Ltd. with Otsuka, Tabata and Saitama divisions
May 1987
Kiichi Hasegawa appointed company president
May 1990
Akira Kusaka appointed company president
May 2000
In order to unify prepress production, Tabata plant moved to Otsuka
June 2000
Takashi Takeshita appointed company president
September 2001
Digital platemaking for manga magazines commenced using the Shaken Hayate System
January 2002
The “Antique” font developed in collaboration with Morisawa Inc., enabling digital platemaking of manga magazines using Mac computers for the first time in the world
July 2004
Commencement of the use of InDesign for typesetting
October 2005
Manga production system using InDesign launched
Automatization continues
January 2008
Company moved to Mejirodai, Bunkyo ward
June 2008
Junichi Yoshii appointed company president
Establishment of the basis for the production of electronic publications, data contents management, metadata preparation etc.
April 2010
ndd (Next Door Design), a design business, established
June 2013
Koji Hirota appointed company president
October 2014
NMM (Next Motion Media), a video production business, established
August 2015
At the Fujimino factory, KBF (Kodansha Book Factory) established and operation to cooperate with book making and color printing companies commenced, aiming to create a straight workflow
October 2017
Next Door Localization, a translation business aimed at overseas markets, established
September 2018
DTP production subsidiary Toyokuni Comic Production, Co., Ltd., established