MIRAINO PUBLISHING | Bringing the World’s Best Thinking to Japan

ABOUT

Japan is one of the world’s largest economies — and yet it’s often called the developed country where adults learn the least.

For a long time, learning here meant exams and qualifications. But as the ground keeps shifting — in society, the economy, technology, and ideas — what it means to learn has to change too.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world has already started moving into its next chapter.

AI, ethics, governance, education, organizations, the inner life.

The most advanced thinking in these fields rarely shows up in a bookstore or a social feed.

We go looking for that knowledge — the ideas that haven’t reached Japan yet — and bring them home. Not simply translated, but carefully reshaped to fit how people here think, what they care about, and the questions they’re asking.

The world’s best thinking isn’t just information. It becomes the kind of insight that can change tomorrow only once you understand it deeply enough to act on it.

That’s the work we take responsibility for: carrying not just ideas, but the values and judgment behind them, to the people who will shape Japan’s future.

VISION

We believe a society is shaped by what the people in it take for granted.

Move those assumptions forward, and you’ve taken the first real step toward a better future.

Japan is full of people with rare sensitivity, integrity, and depth of thought.

By rights, far more of that talent should be flourishing and meeting the world as an equal.

What’s missing is access — a place to meet the best thinking from around the world.

In education, business, philosophy, ethics, fresh perspectives appear every single day.

We don’t just translate these ideas. We turn them into something people here can grasp instinctively, think through in their own words, and carry into action.

Learning unlocks talent. Talent builds the future.

Keeping that chain in motion is what we’re here to do.

SERVICES

Online Learning

Bringing Japan’s learning up to a global standard.

In a world that won’t stop changing, we give learners in Japan access to ideas worth crossing borders for — with the goal of raising the whole country’s intellectual bar.

Publishing

We turn into books only what genuinely deserves to last, and bring it to the wider world.

Not whatever’s trending, but the ideas you’ll still want to be reading ten years from now — selected, translated, edited, and produced end to end.

Media & Broadcast

A broadcast-scale strategy that makes learning open to everyone and puts good ideas within reach.

Working with thinkers, specialists, and guests from abroad across business, philosophy, world affairs, and education, we’re building a new kind of broadcasting — one that actually teaches.

PUBLICATION

Coming soon — the world’s best thinking, brought to Japan

Japanese edition coming 2027

The Next RenaissanceAI and the Expansion of Human Potential

Zack Kass / AI futurist · former Head of Go-To-Market, OpenAI

An AI advisor who helped steer OpenAI through the early ChatGPT era reframes the change we’re living through as a new Renaissance — a story about how AI widens what human beings are capable of. Published in the US in 2026, it became an LA Times and USA Today bestseller. MIRAINO PUBLISHING will bring the Japanese edition to readers here.

Original: The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential (Wiley, 2026) · Japanese translation by Koji Iguchi

Inspire Intelligence Academy (IIA)

Now streaming

Think Different

—— Steve Jobs

The philosophy of breaking the rules and building the future.

The X Factor

—— Elon Musk

The mindset to push past human limits and make the impossible possible.

The Social Code

—— Mark Zuckerberg

The power to grasp what connects us and redefine the world.

YouTube Media | IIA Channel

Inspiration that lights a fire

We don’t stop at publishing and education.
Through digital media, we bring inspiration straight to you.

On IIA’s YouTube channel, we sit down with Japanese people
making their mark around the world,
and share the words, the mindsets, and the ways of living
that give the next generation a reason to take the leap.

A few of the people we’ve sat down with

Nozomi Tanaka

World Championships finalist

Kyogo Furuhashi

Japan national team striker

Yusuke Nakamura

Pioneering genomic-medicine researcher

Ryue Nishizawa

World-renowned architect

Haruaki Deguchi

Founder, Lifenet Insurance

Win Morisaki

International actor

We don’t just cheer people on.
We shine a light on the setbacks too —
because that’s where the real treasure is so often buried.

For a generation of Japanese who have no choice but to step onto the world stage,
this is a channel built to inspire — and to light a fire.

Global Impact Training

Meet the real thing, and raise your sights

What we offer goes beyond learning through a screen.

It’s the living kind: meeting the leaders
who have actually changed the world, face to face,
and feeling their conviction and energy firsthand.

We bring in some of the world’s leading founders and visionaries as teachers,
and design experiences where Japan’s next generation of leaders
make a global perspective their own.

Speakers & projects

Danny Meyer — Founder, Shake Shack

Alli Webb — Co-founder, Drybar

Shivani Siroya — Founder & CEO, Tala

Lee Cockerell — Former EVP, Walt Disney World · speaking November 2026

We are the bridge — and the catalyst —
between the world’s leaders and Japan’s challengers.

An encounter can change a person.
A new perspective can change a life.

Building the stage where that happens,
again and again.

That is the mission of
MIRAINO PUBLISHING and IIA.

Talk to us about speakers, talks & training →

Visits to Japan, online sessions, or overseas programs — tell us what you have in mind.

COMMUNITY

Learning is moving from something we do alone to something we do together — questioning, and making sense of it, side by side.

We run a space where curious, thoughtful people gather to talk, share the problems they’re wrestling with, and turn ideas into action.

It’s not just a study group. It’s a community built to make society better by sharpening both thinking and doing at once.

Through seminars, reading circles, in-person sessions, and conversations that cross borders, we’re growing a culture where depth of thought and sureness of action go hand in hand.

MESSAGE

A Message from the CEO

Satoshi Ito, Representative Director and CEO of MIRAINO PUBLISHING

Representative Director / CEO Satoshi Ito伊藤聡

What I truly set out to do with this company didn’t begin with business, or even with a sense of social mission. It began with the birth of my child.

When I first held my one-year-old daughter, a question rose in me as large as the joy itself. What will Japan, and the world, look like by the time she grows up? And what will I, as her parent, be able to leave her? It didn’t feel like money, and it didn’t feel like academic credentials.

There was a moment in Los Angeles, where my family spent a month, when I simply stood still. In the supplement aisle of an upscale supermarket, a child of about middle-school age was carefully comparing the ingredient labels on the backs of the bottles, one by one, entirely of her own will. I had never seen anything like it in Japan.

There are “ordinary” things in the world that I have not yet seen for myself. What I want to leave my daughter is not money or knowledge, but that sense itself. And for that, I first have to keep that sense alive in me.

There is a “future commonsense” that is already ordinary in more advanced places, yet hasn’t reached Japan. We don’t simply translate that knowledge. We reshape it into a context where people in Japan can think it through in their own words and carry it into action.

Rather than settling for the world we can already see, we go and see the future with our own eyes. That is the stance I hope to share with everyone who feels the same.

Unhurried. Unforced. Yet steadily forward.

We’re looking for people who resonate with the ideas — and can build the structures to carry them.

The work here is both: shaping ideas, and shaping the systems around them.

Editor, translator, producer, planner — sometimes all at once.

Whatever the role, what we share is a belief in connecting real knowledge to the decisions that move society.

We care less about a checklist of skills than about intellectual range — the ability to think in structures and turn a vision into something concrete.

And there’s room to be involved however suits you — full-time, on a project, or as an outside partner.