About the Impress Group Companies

Impress Corporation

Impress Corporation is the publishing company behind Digital Camera Magazine and books like the “Dekiru” series of computer tutorials, which has sold over 80 million copies. It also produces and operates various media platforms such as Impress Watch, Japan’s most highly accessed IT-related digital news platform, and corporate media platforms such as IT Leaders and the Online Shop Managers’ Forum.

Impress Corporation started out as a niche media company specializing in IT and computer publications. It continues to use its strengths in print and digital publishing and online media to its fullest advantage in its efforts to expand its specializations and provide comprehensive, multi-faceted information on diverse topics.

Business Activties:

Print and digital publication, internet media and services, business media, and solutions related to IT and computer

Rittor Music, Inc.

Rittor Music engages in the production and management of music-related media and content. Examples include Guitar Magazine, Sound & Recording Magazine and other specialty magazines and websites for music players and creators, music instrument instructional books, and other related digital publications, footage, and sound recordings.

The company also runs Ochanomizu RITTOR BASE, a multipurpose space in Ochanomizu, the musical instrument capital of Tokyo, and Digimart, Japan’s largest-scale online marketplace for musical instruments.

MdN Corporation

MdN Corporation publishes books and online media that shares useful information and knowledge on design-related topics. In recent years, it has expanded its offerings beyond computer design books to include media on anime and video creation. It continues to provide information on a wide variety of topics related to design by publishing hobby and interest books.

Business Activties:

Print and digital publication of design and graphics-related books; design services

Yama-Kei Publishers Co., Ltd.

Yama-Kei Publishers publishes the Yama to Keikoku [Mountains and Valleys] monthly magazine along with other content and publications related to mountains and nature. It caters to the diverse demands of outdoor sports fans by providing magazine-books, online services, and events on a variety of topics such as camping and figure skating. It is also the company behind the popular Yama to Keikoku YouTube Channel and the Yamasuta app, which allows users to collect digital commemorative stamps upon reaching the summit of mountains based on GPS information.

Business Activties:

Print and digital publication, internet media and services, and solutions related to mountains and nature

Ikaros Publications, Ltd.

Ikaros Publications Ltd., the monthly magazine: Airline publisher, engages specialized books, magazines, and mooks on a variety of topics covering aviation, railway, military, rescue, and travel. Ikaros offers custom media products and corporate solutions on air, land and sea contents.

Business Activties:

Print and digital publication, school operation, and solutions related to aviation, railway, military, and rescue

ICE Inc.

ICE harnesses the content of partner companies and builds them into online businesses using various forms of monetization. It is a one-stop provider of online business building services, from strategy to building IT systems to operations. These include the planning, development, and operation of digital manga website and app services as well as digital adaptations of manga. Besides running its own original dgital comic labels such as CoMax and Comic curea, ICE also publishes manga adaptations of light novels by its in-house digital book publishing brand Tenkaisha.

Business Activties:

Development and operation of digital platforms for partner companies such as publishers; media business such as digital-first publishing

Kindai Kagaku Sha Co., Ltd.

Specializing in math, mathematical science, information science, and information engineering, Kindai Kagaku Sha produces a broad variety of engineering and science-related publications that range from advanced academic reference books to foundational textbooks for university students. In recent years, it has adopted more systematic workflows for editing and production and expanded into e-book publication and on-demand printing. Through these, it hopes to realise sustainable publishing while solving the longstanding issue of technical books becoming out-of-print.

Business Activties:

Publication related to academic, engineering, and science

PUBFUN, Inc.

A joint venture with the POD (print on demand) department of MEDIA DO Co., Ltd, PUBFUN, Inc is Japan’s largest domestic POD company. Its runs the PUBFUN service, which provides POD commissioning and on-demand printing for corporate clients, as well as PUBFUN Self, which uses Amazon’s Print-On-Demand service to provides publication support for individual users.

Business Activties:

Print on demand services

Impress Digital Values, Inc.

Impress Digital Values helps its client companies draw up plans and strategies for data-driven marketing activities. It also provides the services required to build and operate e-commerce sites, websites, and owned media platforms, ranging from content planning and production to support for system creation and operation. Its projects include the online store for a major bookstore, fansites for an entertainment and production company, and a recruitment site.

Business Activties:

Development, building, and operation of e-commerce and member sites for client companies; commissioned web content production

Sifca Corporation

Provides UI/UX design and consulting services for a diverse range of platforms. These include interfaces and information display visuals for product embedded systems, multimedia (website and app) interfaces, and digital signages and exhibition panels for showrooms. Also provides graphic design of logos, icons, and pictograms, and produces illustrations and animations.

Business Activties:

GUI and UX design and consulting; design and illustration production, etc.