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| Yuteki Hayashi establishes Maruya Shosha in Yokohama
on the recommendation of Yukichi Fukuzawa, one of Japan's foremost
intellectuals and educators and a leader in introducing Western culture
to Japan. Maruya Shosha is the first joint stock company in Japan.
The following year, Hayashi opens a store in Nihombashi, Tokyo that
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| Maruzen begins publication of Hyakka Zensho, a
12-volume series that summarized European knowledge. The series is
published from 1883 to 1885. Maruzen publishes a translation of Chamber's
Information for the People on a subscription basis, a highly unusual
publishing method at the time. |
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| Maruzen begins monthly installment sales of Encyclopaedia
Britannica. A number of people who played a prominent role in Japanese
history vie to be among the first to purchase the encyclopaedia. |
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| The first shipment of Burberry's raincoats arrives
from England. These are the first cloth raincoats sold in Japan, where
only rubber-coated raincoats had been available previously. |
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| Maruzen imports Monroe calculators, the world's
first keyboard calculators, from the United States. The company's
enthusiastic efforts to rationalize office work in Japan began in
the Meiji Era when the company pioneered the import of typewriters.
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| Maruzen begins sales of the 13-volume Oxford English
Dictionary. |
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| Maruzen establishes an office in New York to open
a route for importing foreign books and exporting Japanese books and
handicrafts. (The office later becomes U.S. subsidiary Maruzen International
Co., Ltd.) |
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| Maruzen opens Japan's first exhibition of picture
books from around the world, triggering a surge in interest in picture
books. |
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Maruzen establishes its London office as a European
base of operations in the age of computers and new media.
Maruzen develops CALIS (Computer Assisted Library Information System).
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| To commemorate the 120th anniversary of the founding
of the Company, Maruzen acquires a Gutenberg Bible, the first book
ever printed with movable type, at auction in New York. |
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| Maruzen launches a project to preserve on microfilm
The National Diet Library's Collection of Books Printed in the Meiji
Era. This project is completed in May 1991. |
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| Maruzen develops the MACS2 consolidated delivery
system for imported journals to ensure delivery and reduce bother
for annual subscribers of foreign publications. |
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| To speed up fulfillment of special orders for foreign
books, Maruzen relocates U.S. subsidiary Maruzen International Co.,
Ltd. to New Jersey, expands its distribution operation, and launches
a high-speed special order service using on-line purchase ordering
and airfreight. |
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Maruzen is first in Japan to launch a full-fledged
Internet-based online system for ordering Japanese and foreign books.
In cooperation with the University of Toronto Libraries, Maruzen
launches a back-in-print service for producing copies of out-of-print
books. |
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Maruzen launches the Super Choice-kun Internet
service to provide libraries and researchers with full-service support
for everything from the selection and ordering of books to budget
control.
Maruzen obtains the International Organization for Standardization's
ISO 9001 certification for quality management systems for its publishing
system and CALIS library management system. |
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| Following on the success of the Super Choice-kun
service launched in 1996, Maruzen launches the Knowledge Worker, an
academic information platform that provides one-stop access to academic
information from books, journals, and electronic journals published
around the world. |
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Following on the success of the project to preserve
on microfilm The National Diet Library's Collection of Books Printed
in the Meiji Era launched in 1989, Maruzen produces and launches The
National Diet Library's Collection of Books Printed in the Showa Era
CD-R Collection.
Maruzen produces and launches "Shogozo Scrolls" in the Office
of the Shosoin Treasure House, Imperial Household Agency, Japan, Color
CD-R Edition. |
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| Maruzen reopens a store in Nihombashi that closed for construction from autumn, 2004. |
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