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| Founded | 1913; 112 years ago (1913) |
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| Founder | Shigeo Iwanami |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Headquarters location | Tokyo |
| Key people | Masanori Sakamoto [jp][1] (President andCEO) |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (株式会社岩波書店,Kabushiki Gaisha Iwanami Shoten) is a Japanesepublishing company based inTokyo.[2]
Iwanami Shoten was founded in 1913 byIwanami Shigeo. Its first major publication wasNatsume Sōseki's novelKokoro, which appeared as a book in 1914 after being serialized in theAsahi Shimbun. Iwanami has since become known for scholarly publications, editions of classical Japanese literature, dictionaries, and high-quality paperbacks. Since 1955, it has published theKōjien, a single-volume dictionary of Japanese that is widely considered to be authoritative.
Iwanami's head office is atHitotsubashi 2–5–5,Chiyoda, Tokyo.[3]
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Iwanami Shigeo founded the publishing firm Iwanami Shoten in theKanda district of Tokyo in 1913. In its early years, the company published authors such as Natsume Sōseki,Kurata Hyakuzō and Abe Jiro. It also published academic and literary journals in the field of philosophy, includingShijo (1917) andShicho (1921), science, includingKagaku (1931), and literature, such asBungaku (1933). In 1927, it launched theIwanami Bunko [ja] (Iwanami Library), a "major series of international works".[2]
During theSecond Sino-Japanese War and theSecond World War, the firm was repeatedly censored because of its positions against the war and the Emperor. Iwanami Shigeo was even sentenced to two months in prison for the publication of the banned works of Tsuda Sōkichi (a sentence which he did not serve, however). Shortly before his death in 1946, he founded the newspaperSekai, which had a great influence in post-war Japanese intellectual circles.[4]
In 1955, the company released its Japanese language dictionary,Kōjien, which is highly regarded today and sold more than eleven million copies in 2007.[5] During the post-war decades, it continued to publish numerous foreign classics as well as encyclopedias. In 2010, around 20,000 titles were released by Iwanami Shoten.[citation needed]
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