Aiming for redressing the excessive concentration of culture [in the Tokyo area], the company has seven dedicated theatres in Japan and five or six shows go on a tour per year.

Each year, we stage over 3,000 performances to audiences in excess of 3 million, presenting a wide variety of shows including straight plays, original musicals and foreign musicals.

These include the most talked-about shows from other countries, such as New York City’s Broadway and London’s West End. Shiki is able to bring them to Japanese audiences quickly thanks to the strong mutual relationship of trust with other productions.

In particular, we have played six Disney musicals, beginning with Beauty and the Beast in 1995 followed by THE LION KING AIDA, THE LITTLE MERMAID, ALADDIN and the Bells of Notre Dame.

We also made a great success for playing long-running musicals in Japan, such as CATS and the Phantom of the Opera by a hit musical composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber, as well as shows such as MAMMA MIA! and WICKED the Musical.

At the same time, Shiki has also given high priority to conducting social contribution activities for children across the country. We implement the Kokoro no Gekijo project (*1), which is a large-scale venture that invites 360,000 children to our shows for free each year, as well as the “How to Speak Beautiful Japanese Class” which employs Shiki’s unique methodology, with the aim of nurturing a richness of spirit through theatre.

We continue to engage in challenging activities with the aim of creating an enriched society.

(*1) We have been implementing the project since 2008, with the cooperation of the Butaigeijutsu Center, many companies and organizations, which support the objectives of the project.