Hayakawa Publishing

Hayakawa Publishing, Inc. (株式会社早川書房, Kabushiki-gaisha Hayakawa Shobō, trading as the Hayakawa Publishing Corporation) 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.

Hayakawa Publishing, Inc.

Trade name	Hayakawa Publishing Corporation
Native name	株式会社早川書房
Romanized name	Kabushiki-gaisha Hayakawa Shobō
Company type	Private KK
Industry	Publishing
Genre	science fiction fantasy crime fiction nonfiction
Founded	August 1945; 79 years ago (1945-08) in Japan
Founder	Kiyoshi Hayakawa [ja]
Headquarters	Tachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Japan
Key people	Hiroshi Hayakawa (president)
Products	Books magazines
Brands	Hayakawa Bunko Hayakawa Library Hayakawa Mystery Hayakawa Novels Hayakawa SF Series
Services	Publishing
Total equity	¥35,000,000 (2016)
Number of employees	83 (2016)
Website	hayakawa-online.co.jp

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)
• Higeki Kigeki ^[ja] (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

References

1. "London Book Fair salutes Japanese publisher Hiroshi Hayakawa". Euro 24. 1 April 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
2. Bayley, Sian (1 April 2022). "Hayakawa wins LBF Lifetime Achievement Award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
3. "Hiroshi Hayakawa wins LBF Lifetime Achievement Award". BookBrunch. 1 April 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.