Mirai

What Mirai does

Mirai (株式会社みらい) is a privately held Japanese educational publishing company headquartered in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture, that produces specialized professional textbooks for higher education and vocational training institutions. The company's catalog is organized into approximately ten disciplinary series spanning childcare/nursery (保育), social welfare (社会福祉), elderly care (介护福祉), nutrition and health management (栄養), law and constitution (法律・憲法), society and economics (社会・経済), education (教育), and sports/physical education (スポーツ). Two notable sub-brands are the Mirai Sports Library (みらいスポーツライブラリー), launched around 2022-2023 for university sports students, and the Sports Digital Booklet Series (スポーツ・デジタルブックレットシリーズ), launched in July 2024 as an e-book-only line on Amazon Kindle.

Products are delivered in both print and digital formats. Print textbooks are priced between approximately ¥1,100 and ¥3,850 per copy, with digital versions typically priced 20% lower. Titles integrate QR codes linking to supplementary video content and instructor resources (lecture slide data, worksheets, complimentary review copies for adopting faculty). Mirai operates a sales-led go-to-market model: faculty at universities, junior colleges, and vocational schools request complimentary review copies through the company's website, and adoption decisions are made at the departmental level. Distribution spans direct institutional sales, Amazon Japan, Rakuten Books, physical bookstores nationwide, the NTTEDX UniText e-text platform, and Amazon Kindle.

The company has a single revenue stream — textbook sales, transacted as one-time unit licenses — and derives revenue from institutional adoption plus long-tail individual student purchases. No funding rounds, acquisitions, management team disclosures, or headcount figures are publicly available. The company is actively operating, with a dense pipeline of new editions and revised titles scheduled for 2026 (including the 2026 edition of the Welfare/Childcare Statute Compendium), reflecting a steady annual catalog refresh cadence tied to regulatory updates in Japanese welfare, childcare, and nutrition policy.

Name

Mirai

Legal name

株式会社みらい

Website

https://mirai-inc.jp

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Mirai (株式会社みらい) is a Gifu-based Japanese publisher producing professional textbooks for universities and vocational schools across childcare, social welfare, nutrition, sports, and law. It distributes print and digital editions through its website, Amazon Japan, Rakuten Books, and NTTEDX UniText.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Textbook Publishing

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Higher Education Textbook Publishing (MPAJABAB)

Keywords

• Educational textbook publishing
• Academic textbooks
• Welfare education materials
• Childcare textbooks
• Sports education publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Gifu

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Textbook Sales: Sale of print and digital textbooks to educational institutions and individual buyers. Publishers sell directly through the company website and via third-party e-commerce channels (Amazon, Rakuten Books). Pricing ranges from approximately ¥1,100 to ¥3,850 per unit depending on book length, format (print vs. digital), and edition.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

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Core offering

Mirai (株式会社みらい) is a Japanese educational textbook publishing company headquartered in Gifu City that produces textbooks primarily for universities, junior colleges, vocational schools, and professional training institutions. The company publishes both print and digital editions of textbooks across specialized fields including welfare, childcare, education, nutrition, sports, law, and social welfare, with e-books distributed through Amazon Kindle and the NTTEDX UniText academic platform.

Product overview

Mirai (株式会社みらい) is a Japanese educational publishing company that produces textbooks and professional reference materials for higher education and vocational training. The company offers multiple product series including the Mirai Sports Library (みらいスポーツライブラリー) for sports science education, the Sports Digital Booklet Series (電子書籍) for casual sports reading, and comprehensive textbook series for fields including childcare/welfare (保育・社会福祉), elderly care (介護福祉), nutrition (栄養), law (法学), education (教育), and general liberal arts. The portfolio consists of sub-branded series organized by academic discipline, with each series containing multiple textbooks targeting university students and professionals seeking certifications in fields such as childcare workers, social workers, registered dietitians, and care welfare specialists. Mirai distributes products through traditional print format as well as digital formats via Amazon Kindle and NTTEDX UniText platforms.

Differentiator

Problem solved

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Brands

• みらいスポーツライブラリー (Mirai Sports Library): A textbook series for students learning sports and physical education at universities, launched around 2022-2023. The series includes titles on sports management, sports science, coaching, and more.
• スポーツ・デジタルブックレットシリーズ (Sports Digital Booklet Series)

Products and services

• Mirai Sports Library Series (みらいスポーツライブラリシリーズ) Textbook series for sports education courses at universities, junior colleges, and vocational schools in Japan
• Sports Digital Booklet Series Digital textbook editions for sports education curricula, offered alongside the print Mirai Sports Library series
• Childcare Series (保育シリーズ) Textbooks for childcare education programs at universities, junior colleges, and vocational childcare training institutions
• Social Welfare Series (社会福祉シリーズ) Textbooks covering social welfare topics for universities, junior colleges, and social welfare training programs
• Elderly Care Textbooks (介護シリーズ) Textbooks for elderly care education programs at vocational schools and universities training certified caregivers
• Nutrition Education Textbooks (栄養シリーズ) Textbooks for nutrition and dietetics education at universities, junior colleges, and vocational training institutions
• Law Education Textbooks (法学) Legal education textbooks for university and junior college courses in social welfare and related disciplines
• Education Theory Textbooks (教育学) Textbooks on education theory and pedagogy for universities, junior colleges, and teacher training institutions
• Society and Economics Textbooks (社会・経済) Textbooks covering sociology and economics for university and junior college general education programs
• E-book Editions (Amazon Kindle / NTTEDX UniText) Digital e-book versions of Mirai's full textbook catalog, available on Amazon Kindle and the NTTEDX UniText academic platform for institutional and individual purchase

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Technology focussed No

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Broad incumbents

• Gakken (学研): Major Japanese educational publisher with deep coverage across childcare, K-12, and reference publishing. Overlaps with Mirai in childcare certification study materials and learning content for the same target audience of institutions and learners.
• Igaku Shoin (医学書院): Established Japanese publisher specializing in medical, nursing, and health sciences textbooks. Overlaps with Mirai in nutrition and elderly care textbook categories targeting professional certification programs.
• Taishukan Shoten (大修館書店): Long-standing Japanese academic publisher covering education, sports, and humanities. Overlaps with Mirai's education (教育), sports, and society/economics textbook categories for university adoption.

Direct peers

• Hitotsubashi Shoten (一ツ橋書店): Specialized publisher of social welfare and social work textbooks for Japanese universities and vocational schools. Directly competes with Mirai's 福祉 series for faculty adoption in social welfare programs.
• Chuo Hoki Publishing (中央法規出版): Publishes textbooks and reference materials for social welfare, caregiving, and legal professions. Competes directly with Mirai's social welfare and law/constitution series for adoption in Japanese higher education.
• Minerva Shobo (ミネルヴァ書房): Scholarly publisher with significant social welfare and sociology textbook presence in Japan. Competes with Mirai's social welfare series in university adoption decisions for social work and sociology courses.
• Kenpakusha (建帛社): Japanese publisher focused on health, sports, and physical education textbooks at the university level. Direct competitor to Mirai's Mirai Sports Library series in sports science and exercise physiology.
• Dobunkan Shuppan (同文舘出版): Japanese publisher with academic and vocational textbook programs in welfare, social work, and education. Competes with Mirai in faculty adoption for welfare and education certification programs.
• Bunka Shobo (文化書房博文社): Japanese publisher focused on welfare, social work, and care-related textbooks. Directly competes with Mirai's welfare, elderly care, and social welfare series for university and vocational school adoption.

Regional players

• Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan (日本文教出版): Japanese educational publisher with textbook and learning material programs across K-12 and higher education. Adjacent competitor with overlapping faculty relationships in Japanese education markets where Mirai also competes.

Market position

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Investors

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Investments

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