Dainippon Tosho Publishing

Dainippon Tosho is a Japanese publisher whose official site presents its activities as issuing textbooks, digital textbooks, and children's and general books. Its corporate page states a purpose of nurturing curiosity and enjoyment into a force that changes the world, and it publishes teaching materials and guidance resources across subjects including science, life studies, arithmetic/mathematics, and health/physical education for elementary, junior high, and college/university levels.

Dainippon Tosho's official site includes a 'Textbooks Then and Now' feature that traces the history of Japan's curriculum guidelines (Course of Study) from Showa 22 (1947) onward, listing revisions in 1947, 1958, 1968, 1977, 1989, 1998, 2008, and 2017. The feature notes that after the end of World War II, Japan's democratization included educational reform, and that the first Course of Study was presented as a draft in 1947, with textbooks edited by private publishers being issued from 1949 onward.

• Textbooks and teaching materials

  The official site lists textbooks and teaching materials among its offerings.

• Digital textbooks

  The official site lists digital textbooks among its offerings.

• Children's books and general books

  The official site title indicates the issuance of children's books and general books.

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