Educational Project Collaboration between
Japan and Vietnam

Gakken and DTP are advancing aproject for the publication and dissemination of picture books targeted atpreschool children in Vietnam. These picture books contribute to the development of children’s language abilities, reading comprehension, sociability, and creativity,  there by laying a solid foundation for their future academic and professional success. By enabling children to have rich imaginations, understand diverse cultures and values, and acquire empathy and cooperativenessas members of society, we believe this initiative not only contributes to the individual growth but also enhances the overall educational standards of society and promotes economic growth. This effort is realized as the first project that both companies should undertake.

Benefits to Children from Ehon

Language Development

Early childhood is a crucial periodfor language acquisition, and picture books play a significant role inenhancing children's language skills by exposing them to new vocabulary andgrammatical structures.

Reading Comprehension

The habit of reading picture bookshelps develop children's reading comprehension. Understanding stories andacquiring information through reading fosters critical thinking andproblem-solving skills.

Stimulating Creativity and Imagination

The narratives and illustrations inpicture books stimulate children's creativity and imagination. Experiencingdifferent worlds within stories enriches children's minds with vivid images.

Strengthening Parent-Child Bonds

The time parents spend readingpicture books to their children is precious, deepening the bond between them.Sharing stories enhances communication within the family.

Developing Social Skills

Picture books feature variouscharacters and animals, offering opportunities to learn social values likefriendship, cooperation, and gratitude. Through these stories, children canunderstand relationships with others and develop their sociability.

Promoting Multicultural Understanding

Reading picture books from diversecultural backgrounds allows children to experience various cultures andlifestyles, fostering a broad perspective. This is a crucial skill in ourincreasingly globalized society.

Little Piyo series

Target age: 3 years old
It is a heartwarming story of a curious and innocent chick, “LittlePiyo" who spends time with kind family and friends.

Baby See Colors

Target age: 2 years old
Babies are known to see pictures with strong contrasts such as black, white, and red.

The King of Play series

Target age: 5 years old
It supports you to create a more enjoyable world. Let's cut and paste more freely and enjoyably.

Lift series

Target age: 2 years old
What would happen if a big bear and a little mouse, who are good friends, exchanged their belongings?

Finger Board Book

Target age: 5 years old
Just pop your hand on the picture book to start a fun game of imagination! Your hands become rice balls, hair, toilets, and so on! A new kind of hand play picture book that allows parents and children to play with cute hands and interact with each other.

Let’s Play Art

Target age: 2 years old
What's this?" "What's going on? This is a picture book that will surprise and delight everyone from babies to elementary school students and adults! When you turn the picture book left and right... "The rectangle becomes limp. "A round shape turns into the shape of a flower" "The pattern of the fish changes" " Striped pattern transforms" and so on, You can enjoy various changes. The most attractive point of this picture book is that the changes are not in a single pattern.

Damon series

Target age: 3 years old
Communication workbook to experience "Fun!” This workbook is designed to nurture the attachment that is important at this stage of life through developmentally appropriate play. Features of this book Developmentally appropriate content Includes high-contrast color schemes, faces, onomatopoeia, and "Peek-a-boo" games that babies love to play with.Under the supervision of a developmental specialist, the contents are designed to be enjoyed by parents and children together. Includes advice on how to use the book. It is not necessary to be familiar with how to use the workbooks or how to read to the children.Each theme comes with advice for parents on how to use the book! Illustrations by a popular author llustrations are by Akio Kashiwara, the illustrator of the best-selling picture book “ShimaShima-GuruGuru". The book is full of colorful and cute illustrations that will appeal to everyone from babies to toddlers.

Bomvo&Yage

Target age: 5 years old
New adventurers Bomvo & Yage set off on their first adventure! But they are wondering what treasure is, so they ask people they meet about treasure.... This is a picture book about a treasure hunt, with fun pictures to search for the treasure, where you can think about the real treasure together with the main characters.

Give me a hand

Target age: 5 years old
The blocks fall down, almost fall off, and so on, Kuma-kun, bear character of this book is having a lot of trouble wherever he goes!  Oh, my God, he's in trouble! Somebody help him!  This is a picture book in which children can turn the pages and help Kuma-kun out.

Mr.Moon’s

Target age: 6 years old
The moon takes a walk through the city. When the moon passes by, buildings, cars, and amusement park equipment all get excited and happy and start to glow shiny yellow. The page of presents for the fish also has a surprise for the reader! A beautifully colored picture book in shining yellow. A quiz at the end of the book lets you enjoy the pictures and the story over and over again.

Ohanashi series

Target age: 6 years old
A series of picture books with various stories

Tama & Baby

Target age: 5 years old
Story book A baby came to cat, Tama's house. At first, Tama thought the baby was cute, but he cries a lot, is noisy, and gets into mischief, so Tama is a little fed up with him. However, after being with the baby for a long time, he is still a cute baby.
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Publishing in Growth Markets

Gakken will expand into growth markets in the future. We will work with strong local partners to establish supply chains and manufacturing systems.

Diverse Publishing Opportunities

We will expand into a variety of countries and languages. In addition to Vietnam, we may also expand into neighboring countries and publish non-educational publishing needs.grammatical structures.

Progress of digitization

Investment in digital publishing is expected to continue to grow as the use of e-books and online educational platforms increases. Access to and use of digital content is becoming easier in markets around the world.

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