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Parent company | Kadokawa Future Publishing |
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Founded | November 10, 1945 April 1, 2003 (Kadokawa Holdings subsidiary) |
Founder | Genyoshi Kadokawa |
Country of origin | Japan |
Distribution | Japan |
Key people | Takeshi Natsuno[1] (president and CEO) |
Publication types | Books, magazines, video games |
Fiction genres | Manga |
Official website | group |
Kadokawa Shoten (角川書店), formerly the Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd. (株式会社角川書店, Kabushiki-gaisha Kadokawa Shoten), is a Japanese publisher and division of Kadokawa Future Publishing based in Tokyo, Japan. It became an internal division of Kadokawa Corporation on October 1, 2013. Kadokawa publishes manga, light novels, manga anthology magazines such as Monthly Asuka and Monthly Shōnen Ace, and entertainment magazines such as Newtype. Since its founding, Kadokawa has expanded into the multimedia sector, namely in video games (as Kadokawa Games) and in live-action and animated films (as Kadokawa Pictures).