MITSUMURA PRINTING

Mitsumura Printing Co., Ltd. is a Japanese printing company headquartered in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. Its predecessor, Kansai Shashin Seihan Insatsu Goshi Kaisha, was established in Kobe in 1901 by Rishige Mitsumura, and the company was reorganized into a joint-stock company in 1936. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market. Its businesses include commercial printing, digital content, electronic-component manufacturing, packaging and logistics materials, and it states that it aims to expand into fields such as packaging and medical package inserts.

The predecessor of Mitsumura Printing, Kansai Shashin Seihan Insatsu Goshi Kaisha, was established in Kobe in 1901 by Rishige Mitsumura, who was born as the eldest son of Mitsumura Yahei of Kobe, one of the pioneers of the Japanese shipping industry. In 1904, the woodblock print 'Peacock Myoo' was exhibited at the World's Fair in St. Louis, USA, and received an honorary gold medal. The company was renamed Mitsumura Goshi Kaisha in 1906, and in 1914 opened Mitsumura Insatsusho in Kanda Jimbocho, Tokyo. In 1928 it was renamed Mitsumura Genshokuban Insatsusho, and in 1934 it built and moved to a photo studio, factory for color-plate and offset printing, and office building at its current location in Osaki, Tokyo. In 1936 it was reorganized into a joint-stock company. In 1949 Mitsumura Tosho Publishing was established for the purpose of textbook publishing. In 1961 it was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Second Section. In 1967 it began operating a sheet-fed offset factory in Kawagoe, Saitama; in 1969 it introduced a newspaper offset rotary press and began color printing of the Yomiuri Shimbun Sunday edition; in 1970 the Kusa factory for business forms and slip printing was completed; in 1983 it began printing the Yomiuri Shimbun daily; and in 1990 it built the Nasu factory in Otawara, Tochigi, specializing in flat panel display-related products. In 1991, as a project commemorating the 90th anniversary of its founding, it undertook reprinting of the woodblock print 'Peacock Myoo Woodblock Print', and expanded its business scope through a merger with Hosokawa Kappan Insatsusho and making Shinmura Printing a subsidiary. In 1991 the company name was changed to Mitsumura Printing. In 1994 Mitsumura Printing and Hosokawa Kappan-sho merged. In 2002 it was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section and obtained FSC forest certification. In 2014 it obtained Japan Color certification and began a mega-solar power generation business at the Nasu factory. In 2018 it added Shinmura Printing, which focuses on packaging materials, to the group. In 2020 it obtained Green Printing certification. In 2022 the Sayama factory was completed in Sayama, Saitama, and the functions of the Kusa factory were relocated and consolidated there. In 2023 offset printing production functions were relocated and consolidated to the Sayama factory. In 2025 it began an industrial materials manufacturing business at the Nasu factory. In 2026 newspaper printing production functions were transferred to group company Mitsumura High-Speed Offset Co., Ltd.

Printing technology centered on the reproduction of beauty, with the corporate philosophy 'ともにつくり、ともに伝える。' (create together, communicate together).

• Commercial printing

• Digital content services

• Electronic component manufacturing

• Packaging and packaging materials

• Security printing (CopyTect anti-counterfeiting series)

• Logistics materials

• Industrial materials

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