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Tetsu Shirai joined Kodansha Ltd., in 1969 and built his career. In 2000, he joined the Board of Year of Reading for Children and learned about the Bookstart programme introduced by Izumi Satou. He got involved in the establishment of Bookstart Japan and engaged in setting up a system to make the program sustainable with support from publishing industry.