Hayakawa Publishing


Hayakawa Publishing, Inc. is a Japanese publishing company, founded in 1945 by Kiyoshi Hayakawa as a crime fiction publisher. 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.
In 2022, Hiroshi Hayakawa, for 30 years the president of Hayakawa Publishing, was the recipient of the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award "for his decades-long work in bringing international authors to the Japanese market, as well as his championing of science fiction, crime and non-fiction titles in Japan".

Magazines

Imprints

Hayakawa publishes books under a number of imprints.
  • Hayakawa Mystery
  • Hayakawa Library
  • Hayakawa Novels
  • Hayakawa Nonfiction
  • Kaigai SF Novels
  • Mysterious Press Books
  • Shin Hayakawa SF Series
  • Hayakawa Bunko
  • * Hayakawa Bunko SF
  • * Hayakawa Bunko JA
  • * Hayakawa Mystery Bunko
  • * Hayakawa Comic Bunko
  • * Jisedaigata Sakka no Real Fiction
  • * Hayakawa Engeki Bunko
  • Hayakawa Mystery World
  • Hayakawa SF Series J-Collection
  • Sōzōryoku Bungaku
  • Hayakawa Shinsho Juice