Hayakawa Publishing
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| Hayakawa Publishing Corporation | |
Native name | Chu thức hội xã tảo xuyên thư phòng |
Romanizedname | Kabushiki-gaisha Hayakawa Shobō |
| Company type | PrivateKK |
| Industry | Publishing |
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| Founded | August 1945inJapan |
| Founder | Kiyoshi Hayakawa[ja] |
| Headquarters | Tachō,Chiyoda, Tokyo,Japan |
Area served | Japan |
Key people | Hiroshi Hayakawa (president) |
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| Services | Publishing |
| Total equity | ¥35,000,000 (2016) |
Number of employees | 83 (2016) |
| Website | hayakawa-online |
Hayakawa Publishing, Inc.(Chu thức hội xã tảo xuyên thư phòng,Kabushiki-gaisha Hayakawa Shobō,trading astheHayakawa Publishing Corporation)is a Japanese publishing company, founded in 1945 by Kiyoshi Hayakawa[1]as acrime fictionpublisher. It is the largest science fiction publisher in Japan; almost all winners of theSeiun Awardfor Best Foreign Novel are published by the company.
Notable books written by Japanese authors that are published by Hayakawa areCrest of the StarsandG.I. Samurai.
In 2022, Hiroshi Hayakawa, for 30 years the president of Hayakawa Publishing (having worked since 1965 at the independent family firm), was the recipient of theLondon Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award"for his decades-long work in bringing international authors to the Japanese market, as well as his championing of science fiction, crime and non-fiction titles in Japan".[2][3]
Magazines
[edit]- S-F Magazine(first published February 1960)
- Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine(Japanese edition of theAmerican magazine,first published in June 1956)
- Higeki Kigeki[ja]( bi kịch hỉ kịch, a theatrical magazine first published in 1928 byKunio Kishida)
Imprints
[edit]Hayakawa publishes books under a number of imprints.
- Hayakawa Mystery
- Hayakawa SF Series (December 1957–November 1974, 318 volumes)
- Hayakawa Library (1962–1969)
- Hayakawa Novels
- Hayakawa Nonfiction
- Kaigai SF Novels
- Mysterious Press Books (on hiatus since 1988)
- Shin Hayakawa SF Series (since December 2011)
- Hayakawa Bunko
- Hayakawa Bunko SF (for translated foreign science fiction works)
- Hayakawa Bunko JA
- Hayakawa Mystery Bunko
- Hayakawa Comic Bunko (under the Hayakawa Bunko JA imprint)
- Jisedaigata Sakka no Real Fiction (under the Hayakawa Bunko JA imprint)
- Hayakawa Engeki Bunko
- Hayakawa Mystery World
- Hayakawa SF Series J-Collection
- Sōzōryoku Bungaku
- Hayakawa Shinsho Juice
References
[edit]- ^"London Book Fair salutes Japanese publisher Hiroshi Hayakawa".Euro 24.1 April 2022.Retrieved2 April2022.
- ^Bayley, Sian (1 April 2022)."Hayakawa wins LBF Lifetime Achievement Award".The Bookseller.Retrieved2 April2022.
- ^"Hiroshi Hayakawa wins LBF Lifetime Achievement Award".BookBrunch.1 April 2022.Retrieved2 April2022.
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