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Chikuma Shobo

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Chikuma Shobo

Profile

Gender
Unknown
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
publisher, publishing company
Active Years
1940-

Awards

Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
1948
Work: The Complete Works of Atsushi Nakajima
Organization: Mainichi Newspapers
Result: 受賞
Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award, Grand Prize
1986
Work: Chikuma Boys' Library
Organization: Sankei Shimbun
Result: 受賞
Azusakai Publishing Cultural Award
1988
Organization: Azusakai
Result: 受賞
Azusakai Publishing Cultural Award
2021
Work: Completion of Shakespeare Complete Works, World History of Philosophy volumes completed, etc.
Organization: Azusakai
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Legacy

Chikuma Shobo is a major Japanese publishing company, contributing significantly to culture through numerous literary complete works and textbooks. Since its founding, it has overcome several bankruptcy crises and strived to publish excellent books and improve distribution.

Academic Societies

  • Azusakai

Trivia

  • Chikuma Shobo is known as the 'Chikuma of Complete Works', publishing many supplemented and revised personal complete collections repeatedly.
  • In 1988, it completed debt repayment and Sekine Eikyo became president in 1991.
  • The company experienced bankruptcy in 2007 but revived through a shift to marketing-focused management.