
Founded in 1982
Issue date:25th of even other month(April-February) Format:A4 with 80-page volume Subscription fee: JPY 1,260 per issue (sales tax included,postage not-included) JPY 7,560 per year (sales tax and postage included), circulation 20,000 copies in Japan.


Compass is a bimonthly Japanese language maritime magazine featuring mainly shipping, shipbuilding and marine equipment sectors. The magazine is analyzing each sector with its past, present and future and strongly influencing the readers to direct as their "Compass". A timely feature that reflecting the current movement, regular series such as "Close-up" analyzing maritime events/developments from wide angles and deep insight, "Kaiji Report" covering industry movements/trends in detail and "Interview" with industry leaders/experts are very popular. It is also featuring thoroughly and carefully collected field reports from overseas in light of globalization of economy. And there are many more to read.

