[For Those Starting a New Chapter] "100 Words to Make Your Life Shine" Released, Learning from a Philosophy of Success Read for 130 Years

Gakken Co., Ltd. (Shinagawa, Tokyo / President: Tatsuya Nanjo), a group company of Gakken Holdings Co., Ltd. (Shinagawa, Tokyo / Representative Director and President: Hiroaki Miyahara), released "100 Words to Make Your Life Shine: Eternal Principles of Action Learned from a Pioneer of Modern Self-Help" (Authored by Orison Marden, Edited and Authored by Yoko Ueno) on Friday, March 27, 2026.

● The power to forge your own path lies within you.
Carefully selected words not just for "success" but for "living happily."

When you're lost in life, when your future is uncertain, when you hit a wall—.
The words of Orison Marden, who laid the foundation of success philosophy in the late 19th century, will encourage us living today.

This book is a collection of 100 aphorisms extracted from the thoughts and success stories found in the works of Orison Marden, a philosopher known as a pioneer of modern self-help. Marden's philosophy, which influenced numerous business thinkers such as Napoleon Hill, Dale Carnegie, Tenpu Nakamura, and Konosuke Matsushita, has been reconfigured to be easily readable for contemporary readers.

Dreams, talent, opportunities, passion, adversity, character, happiness—.

It includes 100 carefully selected words and episodes for each theme that can turn your life around. This philosophy, which has been read for over 130 years, will accompany you through daily doubts and worries, encouraging you to take a new step forward.

Previous collections of Marden's aphorisms often featured powerful messages about achieving success and rising in the world.

In this book, another important...