Gakken

About

Gakken is a Japanese education and publishing group founded in 1946 by Hidehito Furuoka and now held by Gakken Holdings (株式会社学研ホールディングス), which is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime market under code 9470 and reports roughly 30,500 employees. Its publishing subsidiary, Gakken Inc. (株式会社Gakken, Shinagawa, Tokyo), issues study guides, children's books and nursing/medical titles alongside ICT teaching materials, and sits within a group that also runs Gakken-branded classroom locations, juku and nursery schools, and senior-housing and dementia-care services. In 2026 the company relaunched ta…