Hayakawa Publishing Explained

Hayakawa Publishing, Inc.
Trade Name:	Hayakawa Publishing Corporation
Native Name:	株式会社早川書房
Native Name Lang:	ja
Romanized Name:	Kabushiki-gaisha Hayakawa Shobō
Type:	Private KK
Industry:	Publishing
Founded:	in Japan
Founder:	Kiyoshi Hayakawa
Hq Location:	Tachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Area Served:	Japan
Key People:	Hiroshi Hayakawa (president)
Services:	Publishing
Equity:	¥35,000,000
Equity Year:	2016
Num Employees:	83
Num Employees Year:	2016

is a Japanese publishing company, founded in 1945 by Kiyoshi Hayakawa^[1] as a crime fiction publisher. It is the largest science fiction publisher in Japan; almost all winners of the Seiun Award for Best Foreign Novel are published by the company.

Notable books written by Japanese authors that are published by Hayakawa are Crest of the Stars and G.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 the London 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

• S-F Magazine (first published February 1960)
• Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (Japanese edition of the American magazine, first published in June 1956)
• (悲劇喜劇, a theatrical magazine first published in 1928 by Kunio Kishida)

Imprints

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: London Book Fair salutes Japanese publisher Hiroshi Hayakawa. Euro 24. 1 April 2022. 2 April 2022.
2. Web site: Hayakawa wins LBF Lifetime Achievement Award. The Bookseller. 1 April 2022. Sian. Bayley. 2 April 2022.
3. Web site: Hiroshi Hayakawa wins LBF Lifetime Achievement Award. BookBrunch. 1 April 2022. 2 April 2022.