Hayakawa Publishing

Hayakawa Publishing, Inc.

Trade name	Hayakawa Publishing Corporation
Native name	株式会社早川書房
Romanized name	Kabushiki-gaisha Hayakawa Shobō
Type	Private KK
Industry	Publishing
Genre	science fiction fantasy mystery fiction nonfiction
Founded	August 1945; 76 years ago (1945-08) in Japan
Founder
Headquarters	Tachō, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Japan
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

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. 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.

Magazines[]

• S-F Magazine (first published February 1960)
• (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 (from December 1957 - November 1974, 318 volumes)
• Hayakawa Library (from 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