IMC, founded March, 1959 in Tokyo. Official name:

our company name in Japanese

インターコンチネンタルマーケッテイング株式会社
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The first part of our company name is a Japanese pronunciation of our English name. The 株式会社 is Kabushiki Kaisha, often written as KK and equivalent to Corp., Inc., or Co. Ltd.
There is a list of our staff, associates and close friends at http://imcbook.net/WhoAreWe.htm. Our starting homepages are listed below. Many books are stocked at the office and my be purchased.

In English our common name is
Intercontinental Marketing Corp.
with registered address and office at
Centre Building 2nd floor
1-14-13 Iriya
Taitoku Tokyo 110-0013, Japan

Telephone (books) 81-3-3876-3073, (magazines) 81-3-3876-3574  Facsimile 81-3-3876-3627
Email (imported magazines) zasshi[at]attglobal.net or magaord[at]imcbook.net
(books and export magazines) kunikoi[at]attglobal.net
JPGS collects and publishes information on English publications in Japan and East Asia.
JPGSpress is a joint publishing and distribution arm of IMC and JPGS
(all other) imcbook[at]attglobal.net
SPAM and VIRUSES - We have stopped accepting mail to several of our email addresses. If you had trouble reaching us, please send us a fax or snail mail. In truth, we are advocates of responsible commercial email, including direct mail style promotion, but what we have received recently in quality and quantity is unacceptable.

As the office address is complicated, we prefer the following for international letter mail:
Ueno PO Box 12, Tokyo 110-8691, Japan
(note: our old IPO Box number .... IPO Box 5056 .... is no longer valid)

Parcel delivery companies like FedEx and UPS require office address and telephone number, so don't send such parcels to our PO Box.
Our websites (mostly English) imcbook.net and jpgsonline.com
and (mostly Japanese) asahi-net.or.jp/~tc9w-ball and for books and magazines

How to pay to IMC

Map showing area from Hibiya Line Iriya Station (H-18) to office    Simple map (easy to print)    Yahoo map (Mapion) of Iriya    Some explanation about Iriya  Links and more on Iriya

>>> NEW  IMC is in Centre Bldg (セントレービル) See Google map here.

When founded, IMC planned to be a general trading company. In 1959 Japan was just emerging from the devastation of World War II and the aftermath of the Korean War. Japan was hungry for business, management and technical books and magazines. IMC found its niche representing foreign publishers. Eventually IMC began to distribute to local booksellers and local distributors, to work with Japanese publishers, and to do many other tasks relating to the promotion and distribution of publications. The emphasis is on information rather than entertainment or elementary education. Today we also promote many Japanese authors who write in English and experienced expats living and working in and with Japan. Working with expats and with Japanese who create in English is fun, generally undervalued by the mainstream bookstore and distribution trade, but we think very important.

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