Services
Our Services
hanken tokyo’s services
hanken tokyo is your portal into the world of Japanese publishing for the purpose of foreign rights acquisitions.
hanken tokyo enables you to
We add new books every month and continuously update site features to optimize the user experience.
hanken tokyo enables you to
- connect to hot Japanese content all year round
- immediately grasp title information including specifications and images from each book
- know the rights status of each title by language/territory
- get news about our activities and the wider Japanese publishing industry
- contact us to begin negotiations with a featured Japanese publisher
We add new books every month and continuously update site features to optimize the user experience.

Search & Discover
- On hanken tokyo, we showcase the latest and greatest Japanese books available for foreign rights deals.
- Simultaneously, we search for great foreign titles to introduce to Japanese publishers.

Connect
- We connect foreign and Japanese publishers, and we support you in negotiations and contract creation.

Create
- We offer translation, digitization and other DTP services.
- Additionally, our original editorial system MOES* makes editing books from one language to another a breeze!
*MOES: Manga Online Editorial System
→Distribute
Your digital books can be sold on honto, our Japanese bookstore network.

- Of course, we can print and bind your books!
- Printing was our first business, so we take pride in producing books of exceptional quality.

Distribute
- Through “honto,” our hybrid bookstore network, we sell both paper and e-books from brick-and-mortar stores in Japan and online.
https://honto.jp/ (Japanese only)