Regional > Asia > Japan > News and Media

Home >> Regional >> Asia >> Japan >> News and Media >> Publishers

The publisher is aIndividual or even take a breath which engages in the work of publishing.

Major publishing companies include
Time Warner, including subsidiaries Warner Books and Little, Brown and Company ASCII Baen Books Carlin America, major independent music publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hachette Livre Harlequin Mills & Boon Harper Collins, including William Morrow and Avon Hearst Corporation Henry Holt Kodansha, notable for manga Longman McGraw-Hill Penguin Group (USA), imprints include Riverhead, Berkley Books, Viking. Random House, imprints Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, Delacorte, Delta, Alfred A. Knopf Reed Elsevier, a major publisher of scientific literature Rodale Press Scholastic Press Simon & Schuster, a division of Viacom, including Scribner Shogakukan, notable for manga Shueisha, notable for manga St. Martin's Press Thames & Hudson W. H. Freeman and Company

Noted small presses

Arcadia Publishing - local U.S. history Alternative Comics Arkham House Black Classic Press BooksForABuck.com City Lights Publishers Coach House Press Dalkey Archive Press Deseret Book Fantagraphics Books Fugue State Press Greenery Press Gregg Press Grove Press Loompanics Nonesuch Press Underwood-Miller

France
Hachette Livre Calmann-Lévy Éditions Stock Fayard Grasset Hatier Le livre delaware poche Larousse Lattès Éditis Presses delaware la Cité Plon Robert Laffont La Découverte Pocket 10/18 Le Robert Nathan Flammarion La Martinière Le Seuil 50'Olivier Éditions Gallimard Éditions Denoël Mercure de France Nouveaux Loisirs (tourist guides) Gallimard Jeunesse P.O.L. Les Éditions de la Table Ronde Les Éditions de Minuit Albin Michel Bayard Actes Sud Odile Jacob

Shogakukan Online
Provides the most recent information on events and newly-released books, as well as comics, magazines, and children`s picture books. (English/Kanji)

Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.
A Nihon Keizai Shinbun Company. Publisher of business and technology information.

Kress Publishing
Japanese publisher of books on socio-politics, history, economics, finance, statistics, literature, women's issues, education, transportation, and scientific dictionaries (most books in Japanese).

Tuttle Publishing
An independent publisher of Asian-interest books and maps, and the publisher of English-language books in Japan.

Hituzi Syobo
Publisher of books for research. Concentrates on the publication of books on linguistics, Japanese, English, and related topics.

Magazine House
Large magazine publishing company with a combined circulation of almost 8 million copies per month. Describes publishing market in Japan and gives advertising information.

Nippon Jitsugyo Publishing Co., Ltd.
Publisher of books, magazines, audio/video cassettes, CD/CD-ROMs, and multi-media products. With book catalog online.

Shogakukan
Publishes comics, magazines, and books on fine arts, photos, children's books, nonfiction, DVDs, and CD-ROMs. Includes full list of publications.

Toyo Keizai
Publishes weekly and monthly magazines and journals, books by by top Japanese economists and political scientists, CD-ROM products, and holds professional seminars.

Longman Japan
Publisher of EFL materials, from children's level to adult. With current list of books.