信州大学
Kitaooji Shobo published "Chibikuro Sampo", a non-racist Japanese version of Helen Bannerman's "The Story of Little Black Sambo," in 1997. The reviser/author of the book is Marimo Mori, pseudonym of Kazuo Mori, professor of psychology at Shinshu University. It is the first publisher outside the United Kingdom to officially pay royalties to the book's legal holder, Ragged Bears Publishing.