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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] 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.

Trade name

Hayakawa Publishing Corporation

株式会社早川書房

Kabushiki-gaisha Hayakawa Shobō

Private KK

Publishing

August 1945 (1945-08) in Japan

Kiyoshi Hayakawa

Tachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Japan

Hiroshi Hayakawa (president)

  • Hayakawa Bunko
  • Hayakawa Library
  • Hayakawa Mystery
  • Hayakawa Novels
  • Hayakawa SF Series

Publishing

¥35,000,000 (2016)

83 (2016)

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]

(first published February 1960)

S-F Magazine

(Japanese edition of the American magazine, first published in June 1956)

Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine

(悲劇喜劇, a theatrical magazine first published in 1928 by Kunio Kishida)

Higeki Kigeki

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 Mystery World

Hayakawa SF Series J-Collection

Sōzōryoku Bungaku

Hayakawa Shinsho Juice

Hayakawa publishes books under a number of imprints.