- Series of Digital, English-language Releases of Japanese Bestselling Novels &

Comics! Including Miyuki Miyabe's "Puppet Master" & Buichi Terasawa's "COBRA" -

CREEK & RIVER Co., Ltd., a planner and producer of media content and involved in

creators' agency business, announced on January 22 that it has begun a KAORI

project to promote Japanese novels and comics overseas. Named for the concept of

bringing Japanese kaori (culture) to the world, this project will see the

translation, digitization, and global distribution of works by authors who

network with CREEK & RIVER's literary agency.

As a first highlight, global distribution has begun for Miyuki Miyabe's "Puppet

Master", a best-selling smash hit with over four million copies sold, and a

winner of both the Mainichi Publishing Culture Award and the Minister of

Education Award for Fine Arts in Literature. Koh Murao, an artist currently

active in New York, provided the cover illustration. This novel is to be

released in consecutive volumes, with the fifth and final volume planned for

release in February 2016.

Additionally, distribution has also been confirmed for the seminal sci-fi manga

"COBRA" (by Buichi Terasawa), the subject of a surprise announcement that it

would be made into a live-action Hollywood movie adaptation. This bestselling

comic with over 60 million copies sold is a representative work of Japanese

science fiction. Now, all 15 volumes of the full-color English edition will be

released sequentially.

Ten manga masterpieces of various genres are in the line-up of Japanese Authors'

Gallery KAORI. These are planned for release mainly on Amazon Kindles and Apple

iBooks, with later expansion to other distribution platforms.

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*Apple and iBooks are trademarks of Apple, Inc.

The First Line-Up of Japan Authors' Gallery KAORI

Puppet Master vol.1 - by Miyuki Miyabe

Original Title - Mohohan

Translator - Ginny Tapley Takemori

URL (vol.1) - http://amzn.com/B00R2WYKB4

COBRA (15 volumes) - by Buichi Terasawa

Vol. 1: http://amzn.com/B00QIERGAO

Vol. 2: http://amzn.com/B00QIERGB8

Cynical Hysterie Hour (6 volumes) - by Kiriko Kubo

F (28 volumes ) - by Noboru Rokuda

Josephine the French Rose (4 volumes) - by Yumiko Igarashi

Itihasa (15 volumes) - by Wakako Mizuki

Jun: The Challenger to Cthulhu (5 volumes) - by Kentaro Yano

Futaba-kun Change! (8 volumes) - by Hiroshi Aro

Tales of Anatur (4 volumes) - by Mito Orihara

The Ring of the Nibelungen (4 volumes) - by Ryo Azumi

Crying Freeman (9 volumes) - by Kazuo Koike (author), Ryoichi Ikegami (

illustrator)

Since 2010, CREEK & RIVER has been operating as a translation and publishing

agency bringing Japanese literature to China, Taiwan, South Korea, and other

countries and regions; creating and brokering e-books on e-book stores such as

Amazon Kindle, Rakuten Kobo, Kinokuniya Kinoppy, and Apple iBooks; and operating

as a literary agency by networking with authors and manga creators to carry out

print and digital publishing of literature. We plan to globally introduce

products from all fields, such as manga, anime, novels, and more.

About CREEK & RIVER Co., Ltd.

Head office: C&R Group Building, 2-10-9 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Established: March 1990

President and Representative Director: Yukihiro Ikawa

Business description: Agency services, professional agent services, production

services, outsourcing services, consulting services, education service, rights

management service, management and distribution service for copyrights and

content.

URL: http://www.cri.co.jp/en/

Project URL: http://www.cri.co.jp/KAORI/

Source: CREEK & RIVER Co., Ltd.

Contact:

Hiroki Kawaguchi

CREEK & RIVER Co., Ltd.

Tel: +81-3-4550-6121

Email: cr_agent@hq.cri.co.jp