Iwanami Shoten

Iwanami Shoten
Founded1913 (1913)
FounderShigeo Iwanami
Country of originJapan
Headquarters locationTokyo
Key peopleMasanori Sakamoto[1]
(President and CEO)
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.iwanami.co.jp

Iwanami Shoten, Publishers (株式会社岩波書店, Kabushiki Gaisha Iwanami Shoten) is a Japanese publishing company based in Tokyo.[2]

Iwanami Shoten was founded in 1913 by Iwanami Shigeo. Its first major publication was Natsume Sōseki's novel Kokoro, which appeared as a book in 1914 after being serialized in the Asahi Shimbun. Iwanami has since become known for scholarly publications, editions of classical Japanese literature, dictionaries, and high-quality paperbacks. Since 1955, it has published the Kōjien, a single-volume dictionary of Japanese that is widely considered to be authoritative.

Iwanami's head office is at Hitotsubashi 2–5–5, Chiyoda, Tokyo.[3]

  1. ^ "【Company Information】Board of Management (as of 1st June, 2021)". Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  2. ^ Louis Frédéric, Japan Encyclopedia, Harvard University Press, 2005, p. 409.
  3. ^ "会社案内 Archived 2014-06-27 at the Wayback Machine." Iwanami Shoten. Retrieved on June 3, 2014. "【本  社】 〒101-8002 東京都千代田区一ツ橋2丁目5番5号" - Map in Japanese()

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