Kana Japanrights Agency, formerly known as Arika Interrights Agency, was founded in 2006 with the aim of helping Thai publishers acquire translation rights for a wide variety of books from around the world.

Over 17 years of operation, Arika has built strong business relationships with rights holders in Japan, China, Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia, as well as publishers in Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. For Japanese books, we partnered with Japan UNI Agency to secure translation rights for Thai publishers.

In 2022, our team decided to focus exclusively on Japanese books, responding to the growing demand in Thailand for both fiction and non-fiction titles translated from Japanese. As a result, in 2023 we rebranded as Kana Japanrights Agency to reflect this new direction.

With the same experienced staff from Arika Interrights but in a new office location, Kana Japanrights Agency now specializes in acquiring Japanese titles of all genres for Thai publishers. We no longer handle rights from other countries, allowing us to work even more closely with Japan UNI Agency than before.

However, since 2025 we have expanded our business network to deal directly with some Japanese publishers and other Japanese agency as well.