The is a publishing house with headquarters in
Chiyoda,
Tokyo
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. Its product range is centered on foreign language—mainly English—dictionaries and textbooks. The name, ''Kenkyūsha'', can be translated as "study/research company".
History
The company was founded by Goichirō Kosakai as in 1907 published the first edition of one year later. In 1916 the company's name was changed to its present: ''Kenkyūsha''.
The predecessor of titled was launched in 1917. The company extended its product range in 1918 with the , a large dictionary, compiled by Yoshitarō Takenobu.
Kenkyūsha expands, establishing in 1919 a typesetting workshop on the slope of Kudan, a former street in
, and — in 1920 — a printing house on
Kagurazaka
is a neighbourhood in Tokyo, northwest of Iidabashi Station. It has a shopping street at its center, lined by numerous cafés and restaurants. It is served by Tokyo Metro Tozai Line and Toei Oedo Line.
History
The main road of Kagurazaka was o ...
in
Ushigome. In 1921, the first volume of the covering English literature appears. All of the 100 volumes are completed by 1932.
Due to reconstruction, in 1924, the printing house is temporarily moved to Iidamachi. 1927 sees the completion of the printing shop on Kagurazaka. Another press is established in 1939 in
Kichijōji
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, west of central Tokyo. In 1944, Kenkyūsha receives an assignment from Aki Yasutarō for , a monthly magazine aimed at researchers and students of
English literature
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. In the same year, the Japanese scholar Fumio Nakajima publishes .
Three years later, the is founded. The printing business is split off in 1951 under the Kenkyūsha Printing Corporation.
In 1963 the company publishes consisting of 12 volumes. A year later, is launched together with the . A year after its 60th anniversary, in 1968, Kenkyūsha publishes in five volumes.
The year 1984 saw big changes for the company. Kenkyūsha Printing built a new office in Nobidome,
Niiza in
Saitama Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture ...
. The Fuji plate-making factory and the Kichijōji factory were moved to the new location and at the printing shop at Kudan, a
typesetting
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factory was established.
Dictionaries
Kenkyūsha has been publishing dictionaries in various sizes for almost one hundred years. The following list is a selection of dictionaries published by the company together with the years of publication.
* : 1927 (1st) by Yoshisaburō Okakura, 1980 (5th), 2002 (6th)
* : 1918 (1st) by Yoshitarō Takenobu, 2003 (5th)
* : 1967 (1st), 1994 (6th), 2003 (7th)
* : 1995 (4th), 2002 (5th)
* : 1984 (1st), 1999 (2nd)
* :
* : 2005 (2nd)
* : 2005 (2nd)
* : 1984 (1st), 1996 (3rd), 2002 (4th), 2007 (5th)
* : 1984 (1st), 1996 (3rd), 2002 (4th), 2008 (5th)
* : 1995
* : 1995
* : 1999 (1st), 2008 (2nd)
* : 1996
* : 1995
* : 1990
* : 1994
* : 1994
* : 1990
Periodicals
*''The Rising Generation'': with the migration to the web edition, the publication was paused with the March issue 2009
* published from 1945 to 2000, Current English suspended in 2003
* suspended in 1997
Subsidiaries
*:
Former subsidiaries
*: A printer for Kenkyusha Co., Ltd. In 1951-02-01, it became an independent company.
References
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External links
Kenkyusha Co., Ltd.Kenkyusha Printing Co.,Ltd
Book publishing companies in Tokyo
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