Books Nippan

Books Nippan* was a long-standing bookstore chain and mail order company, and was a wholly-owned American division of Tokyo-based multinational Nippon Shuppan Hanbai — Japan’s largest book wholesaler. By the middle of the 1990s Books Nippan had begun to shutter its special projects division (U.S. Renditions) along with its mail order operations. Its retail bookstore locations were closed during this same time period, however, Books Nippan continued as a publishing imprint into the late 1990s. *Legal Entity Name: Nippon Shuppan Hanbai U.S.A., Inc.