1945-1962 Entering a New Era

World War II ended in August 1945. Although most of central Tokyo had become scorched earth, the Company's Ichigaya factory fortunately remained undamaged.
People had a craving for things to read that resulted in a postwar boom in the publishing industry. Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) was inundated with orders and increased production capacity at the Ichigaya plant in order to meet demand.
At the same time, the labor movement intensified its activities in the printing industry. The situation became so serious that the Company's management was destabilized. The Company decided to respond by promoting labor-management cooperation and by moving boldly into fields other than book and magazine printing, such as paper containers, film packaging, decorative materials and business forms.
The latter half of the 1950s saw a boom in the launching of new weekly magazines, beginning with "Shukan Shincho." Previously, weekly magazines had been issued only by newspaper companies, which had the capacity to move around and gather information, but once DNP began to increase its production capacity to meet the needs of publishing companies, they also gained the ability to issue weekly magazines.