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KOKUYO Headquarters & offices · Osaka, Japan
KOKUYO · Osaka, Japan
After 90 years in the same Osaka neighbourhood, KOKUYO moved its head office onto one floor overlooking a park — and gave 47% of it to a café with a teppan griddle, a gym, a town hall and other spaces that are not desks.
The 2026 head office in Grand Green Osaka, the Tokyo “THE CAMPUS”, the benefits in Japan and every head-office move since a ledger-cover shop opened in Osaka in 1905 — then the business. Every number from KOKUYO's own website, newsroom, magazine and recruiting site.
- 47%of the head-office floor used for cafés, halls, a gym and other non-desk spaces
- 1,260 tsuboone floor (≈ 4,166 m², ≈ 44,800 sq ft), opened 2026
- 1969KOKUYO opened Japan's first “live office” that visitors can tour
- 20%of working time employees can spend on an in-house second job
Sources: KOKUYO magazine, “Moving the head office is an experiment in culture change” (Jun 22, 2026) · news releases, Mar 26 and May 21, 2026 · KOKUYO recruiting site, HR Message
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THE HEAD OFFICE · KOKUYO HQ · GRAND GREEN OSAKA · 2026
A “Promenade of Discovery” on one floor above Osaka's newest park
KOKUYO HQ fills the 14th floor of Grand Green Osaka Park Tower, next to Osaka Station. KOKUYO designed it with the San Francisco interior design firm Studio O+A around one idea, the “Promenade of Discovery”: a central walkway linking lively, quiet and green zones. Visitors walk a long graphic corridor to the Gateway, a reception with views over Umeda, a pop-up gallery and a “Curiosity Wall” of 120 years of products. Parkside has a shoes-off wellness room where staff can work with their children nearby, a town hall with a large LED screen and a bar, and a gym that doubles as a meeting space. In the Workplace nobody has a fixed desk; Kiln, the area with the president's and chairman's offices, is open to all staff. The Treehouse bans calls and video meetings, and the Marketplace café has a teppan griddle for okonomiyaki, a table made from recycled chopsticks and a counter made with branches from Yui no Mori, the forest in Kochi where the KOKUYO group runs a conservation project.
- 1,260.25 tsubo (≈ 4,166 m², ≈ 44,800 sq ft) on one floor
- Design partner: Studio O+A
- 47% of the floor for non-desk spaces
- No assigned desks
- Teppan griddle in the café
- Live office, tours by reservation
Gateway and the Curiosity Wall
Visitors walk a long graphic corridor to the Gateway, a reception with views over Umeda, a pop-up gallery and a “Curiosity Wall” of 120 years of products.
Workplace and Treehouse
In the Workplace nobody has a fixed desk, and the Treehouse bans calls and video meetings.
Parkside and Marketplace
Parkside has a gym that doubles as a meeting space, and the Marketplace café has a teppan griddle for okonomiyaki.
Facts: KOKUYO news releases (Mar 26 and May 21, 2026) · KOKUYO magazine, “Inside the new head office KOKUYO HQ” (Jun 26, 2026) and interview with the project leads (Jun 22, 2026) · KOKUYO HQ live-office page.
The Osaka head office and the Tokyo “THE CAMPUS”
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| KOKUYO HQ (head office, 14F) | Grand Green Osaka Park Tower 14F, 5-54 Ofukacho, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-8459, Japan |
| THE CAMPUS (Tokyo Shinagawa office) | 1-8-35 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8710, Japan |
Source: KOKUYO Corporate Profile · news release, Feb 12, 2021 · See them on the map ↓
Source: KOKUYO news releases (Feb 14, 2025; Mar 26 and May 21, 2026; Feb 12, 2021) · KOKUYO magazine (Jun 2026). Area conversion from tsubo by eciffo.
Office tour videos
Benefits (Japan)
Employees set their own start and end times every day.
Each person chooses office-based, home-based or balanced; home-based is in principle for people raising children or caring for family.
Before and after birth combined (22 weeks for twins or more).
Parents can stay on leave until the child's second birthday.
Up to four weeks within eight weeks of the birth, in two blocks if wanted, plus two days of spouse childbirth leave.
Per family member needing care, in up to three blocks; plus 5–10 days a year of short care leave, usable by the hour.
Shorter days or fewer days a week until a child finishes the third year of primary school, or up to 3 years for family care.
Employees get miles each year to spend on refreshment or self-development from a menu, and earn more through health and learning activities.
Source: KOKUYO recruiting site, Employee Benefits page (2026). Plans apply to KOKUYO Co., Ltd. in Japan.
Why people stay: what KOKUYO itself says
Employees stay in their own department but apply for projects posted by other teams and spend about 20% of their working time on them.
Young employees are posted abroad for a year, without an interpreter, to complete a mission at a local KOKUYO site.
Staff from any job — sales, factory, logistics — learn strategy and marketing, then spend about half a year turning it into a new-business plan presented to senior management.
At milestones such as the third and sixth year, employees review their own careers, then talk it through with their manager and HR.
After the Tokyo office was rebuilt in 2021, the “culture of taking on challenges” score of its staff rose from 63 to 74 points by April 2026.
Regular employees who left for marriage, childcare, nursing care, a spouse's transfer, study, volunteering or another job can be re-employed.
Source: KOKUYO recruiting site, HR Message and Employee Benefits pages (2026) · news release, May 21, 2026 (engagement survey by Wevox)
Who works here
employees in the group (Dec 31, 2025); 2,346 at KOKUYO Co., Ltd.
directors, 6 of them outside directors (Mar 2026)
directors are women (Mar 2026)
years since the company began in Osaka in 1905
Source: KOKUYO Corporate Profile · “KOKUYO in numbers” (IR) · Chronicle
Office history: from a ledger-cover shop to a park-side tower in Umeda
- 1905 Kuroda Hyoshi-ten, Minamihorie
In October 1905 Zentaro Kuroda, then 26, opened a shop making covers for Japanese-style account books in Minamihorie, Nishi-ku, Osaka. He soon made whole ledgers, and in 1913 began selling Western-style account books.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle, “The founding era” · Corporate Profile
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1917 Kuroda Kokkodo and the “Kokuyo” trademark
The shop was renamed Kuroda Kokkodo in 1914. In 1917 it set up a dedicated factory in Kujo and adopted the trademark “Kokuyo” (“pride of the nation”).
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle, “The founding era”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1920–27 Factories in Higashinari
A cover workshop opened in Ikaino, Higashinari-ku, in 1920, a printing and binding factory in 1922, and a factory in Nakamichi in 1927 that brought the whole process under one roof.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle, “The era of prosperity”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1936 A three-storey head office in Oimazato
KOKUYO built a new three-storey head office with an attached factory in Imazato (Oimazato, Higashinari-ku) — the site that stayed its head office for 90 years. The Osaka head office and factory came through the war undamaged.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle, “The era of prosperity” and the period that follows
KOKUYO's head office on the Imazato site, Higashinari, Osaka, 2010 · Kansai explorer / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1946 Tokyo branch
KOKUYO opened a Tokyo sales office in 1946; the chronicle says a Tokyo branch was set up two years after the war, followed by branches across Japan.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle (1946; 1954 period text)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1969 New head office — Japan's first live office
A new head-office building in Osaka was completed, furnished almost entirely with KOKUYO products, from executive rooms to the staff canteen. The whole building was opened as a “live office” where visitors could watch employees at work — a first in Japan.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle (1969) · news release, Mar 26, 2026
KOKUYO's former head office in Higashinari, Osaka (2022) · Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1979 Tokyo Shinagawa building
KOKUYO completed its Tokyo Shinagawa building. In 1988 it also launched a magazine called ECIFFO — “office” spelled backwards.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle (1979, 1988)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2021 THE CAMPUS opens in Shinagawa
KOKUYO renovated its own Tokyo Shinagawa office and showroom building and reopened it on February 15, 2021 as THE CAMPUS, with a public park, shop, coffee stand and open lab next to the live office.
Source: KOKUYO news release, Feb 12, 2021
KOKUYO's Shinagawa building, home of THE CAMPUS, 2023 · Akonnchiroll / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2026 KOKUYO HQ, Grand Green Osaka
On May 1, 2026, after 90 years in Higashinari-ku, KOKUYO moved its registered head office to the 14th floor of Grand Green Osaka Park Tower in Umeda, bringing together corporate staff from Higashinari and business teams from its Umeda office. KOKUYO HQ opened as a live office on June 16, 2026.
Source: KOKUYO news releases, Feb 14, 2025 and Mar 26 and May 21, 2026 · notice of head-office relocation, Mar 26, 2026
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
KOKUYO stayed in Osaka for 121 years: from a shop in Minamihorie to 90 years in Higashinari, then a single floor in Umeda — with its Tokyo base, THE CAMPUS, in Shinagawa.
- 1 · 1905Minamihorie, Nishi-ku, Osaka — Kuroda Hyoshi-ten, the ledger-cover shop where KOKUYO began (district-level location)
- 2 · 1936Oimazato, Higashinari-ku, Osaka — Head office 1936–2026; Japan's first live office from 1969 (district-level location)
- 3 · 2021THE CAMPUS, 1-8-35 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo — Tokyo Shinagawa office, renovated and opened to the city in 2021
- 4 · 2026Grand Green Osaka Park Tower, 5-54 Ofukacho, Kita-ku — Today's head office, KOKUYO HQ (14th floor)
Addresses: KOKUYO Chronicle (1905, 1936), Corporate Profile and news releases (2021, 2026). The former head office's exact street number is not given in KOKUYO's web pages, so 1905 and 1936 are placed at district level.
What KOKUYO does
KOKUYO began in 1905 making covers for Japanese account books. It became Japan's leading maker of paper products and Campus notebooks, moved into steel office furniture in 1960 and now calls itself a “WORK & LIFE STYLE Company” that designs offices, sells furniture and stationery, runs office-supply e-commerce and interior retail.
Four reporting businesses: Furniture, Business Supply Distribution, Stationery and Interior Retail.
Where the money came from · Net sales by business, year to Dec 31, 2025
Source: KOKUYO IR, Segment information (from the earnings summaries) · “KOKUYO in numbers”
Source: KOKUYO IR, Financial highlights (from the earnings summaries) · long-term vision CCC2030. Growth rate calculated by eciffo.
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥300.9B → ¥359.9B
Fiscal years end December 31. Net sales (consolidated): KOKUYO IR, Financial highlights (from the earnings summaries). Employees: Corporate Profile (Dec 31, 2025); earlier year-end headcounts are published only in PDF reports. Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Born 1976 in Ashiya, Hyogo; great-grandson of the founder and KOKUYO's fifth president. Joined in 2001, ran KOKUYO Furniture, became President and Representative Director in 2015 and Representative Executive Officer and President in 2024.
Became president in 1989.
Became president in 1985.
Became president in 1960 when the founder became chairman.
Founder; led the company until he became chairman in 1960.
Founder: Zentaro Kuroda, who opened a ledger-cover shop in Osaka in 1905 at the age of 26.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle · CEO message · KOKUYO Design Award 2026 judges page · sustainability interview (profile) · KOKUYO magazine, 120th-anniversary rebranding
KOKUYO: questions people ask
Where is KOKUYO's headquarters?
KOKUYO HQ is on the 14th floor of Grand Green Osaka Park Tower, 5-54 Ofukacho, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-8459, Japan, directly connected to JR Osaka Station. KOKUYO moved there on May 1, 2026.
Source: KOKUYO Corporate Profile · news release, May 21, 2026
Where was KOKUYO's previous head office?
In Oimazato, Higashinari-ku, Osaka, where KOKUYO built a head office with a factory in 1936 and a new head-office building in 1969. It stayed there for 90 years.
Source: KOKUYO Chronicle · news release, Feb 14, 2025
Who designed KOKUYO HQ?
KOKUYO's own team designed it with Studio O+A, an interior design firm based in San Francisco. Their concept is the “Promenade of Discovery”.
Source: KOKUYO news releases, Mar 26 and May 21, 2026
How big is KOKUYO's head office?
1,260.25 tsubo on a single floor — about 4,166 m² or 44,800 sq ft. KOKUYO says 47% of it is used for cafés, halls, a gym and other spaces rather than desks.
Source: KOKUYO news release, Mar 26, 2026 · KOKUYO magazine, Jun 22, 2026
Can you visit KOKUYO HQ?
Yes, by reservation. KOKUYO HQ is a “live office” where business customers can see employees at work — a format KOKUYO started in Japan in 1969.
Source: KOKUYO news releases, Mar 26 and May 21, 2026 · KOKUYO HQ live-office page
Does KOKUYO allow remote work?
Each employee chooses one of three styles — office-based, home-based or balanced — and works flextime with no core hours. The home-based style is in principle for people raising children or caring for family.
Source: KOKUYO recruiting site, Employee Benefits
What benefits does KOKUYO offer in Japan?
Among them: flextime with no core time, 14 weeks of maternity leave, childcare leave until a child turns two, up to four weeks of leave for new fathers, 183 days of family care leave, shorter hours until a child finishes third grade, and yearly “PLAY WORK” miles for refreshment and learning.
Source: KOKUYO recruiting site, Employee Benefits
How much does KOKUYO pay new graduates?
The starting monthly salary is ¥270,500 for university graduates and ¥280,500 for graduate-school graduates, with bonuses twice a year.
Source: KOKUYO recruiting site, Recruitment information (2027 intake)
How many people work at KOKUYO?
8,079 in the group at December 31, 2025, of whom 2,346 work for KOKUYO Co., Ltd.
Source: KOKUYO Corporate Profile
Who is KOKUYO's CEO?
Hidekuni Kuroda, Representative Executive Officer and President. He became president in 2015 and is the great-grandson of founder Zentaro Kuroda.
Source: KOKUYO Corporate Profile · KOKUYO Design Award 2026 judges page
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