Profile

Gender

Unknown

Nationality

Japan

Languages

Japanese

Career

Occupations

publisher

Active Years

1913-

Awards & Nominations

Legacy

Iwanami Shoten is a Japanese publisher established in 1913, known for its collections like Iwanami Bunko and the Japanese encyclopedic dictionary Kojien. It covers a wide range of genres including academic, natural science, and children's literature, contributing significantly to Japan's publishing culture and intellectual discourse since its founding.

Trivia

• Founded on August 5, 1913, in Kanda Jinbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, as a used bookstore and later progressed to publishing.
• The Iwanami Bunko series was launched in 1927 and remains a long-standing popular collection.
• Their iconic publication is the Kojien dictionary, one of the major Japanese national dictionaries.
• Iwanami Shoten uses a responsible sales system, requiring bookstores to purchase all books sold.
• Their corporate mark, based on Millet's painting 'The Sower', has been in use since 1933.