Why Not Host a Reading Group to Discuss Welfare and Social Systems? Magazine House's <Cocococo> Releases Free Event Management Tools!

Magazine House Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Shuichi Tetsuo) has released free management tools on its web magazine for holding online reading groups related to welfare (commonly known as 'Happy Book Reading Groups'). Anyone interested in care and social welfare, or those who wish to learn with children, can use these tools. Please make use of them.

Free Release of Management Tools for Holding 'Happy Book Reading Groups'

Last year, Magazine House's web media 'Creative Magazine for Exploring Welfare' produced the handbook 'What Does It Mean to Live Happily? The Mechanisms and Work of Care You Should Know' (nicknamed 'Happy Book') and released its digital data.

• Handbook 'What Does It Mean to Live Happily? The Mechanisms and Work of Care You Should Know' (PDF)

This year, a project (※) was launched to promote the 'Happy Book,' and as one of its activities, an online reading group was held in December 2025. The release of these management tools is an attempt to support anyone in holding a 'Happy Book Reading Group' by improving the 'progress slides' used at that time and making them available for free along with a 'sample announcement text for reading group events'.

※This project is implemented as part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's subsidized project for FY2025, the "Care Work Appeal Promotion Project (Information Dissemination Project)."

【Tools Currently Available】

• Happy Book Reading Group Slides (Google Slides: with speaker notes)

• Happy Book Reading Group Slides (PDF)

• Sample Reading Group Event Announcement Text (Google Docs)

※The text within the above tools may be reused and modified for non-profit purposes. However, please use the illustrations as they are.

For those who often interact with children, or who want to create opportunities for parents to read together...