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Faust (magazine)
was a literary magazine published irregularly by Kodansha since 2003 promoted as a "Fighting Illustrated Novels Magazine." The magazine featured young writers and a style derived from light novels. The latest issue, Vol. 8, was published at the end of September 2011, and the magazine announced its dissolution with Vol. 9. Del Rey Manga released an English language edition in August 2008 and planned to publish at least two volumes total, with content culled from all issues of the Japanese magazine. Local language editions in South Korea and Taiwan have also been released. Overview Based on the prototype of the doujinshi published by Bungaku Flea Market, the first issue was launched as part of a project to develop a new magazine project to commemorate Kodansha's 100th anniversary (in 2009). The editor-in-chief was the project proposer, Katsushi Ōta (who was working in Kodansha's Literary Book Publishing Department No. 3 at the time of the first issue), and in the early stages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katsushi Ōta
is a Japanese editor. As of 2020, he is president of Seikaisha, a publishing company established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodansha. Career Ōta was born in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture and graduated from the department of Japanese literature in the faculty of education at Waseda University. He joined Kodansha in 1995 and was assigned to the editorial department of '' Bessatsu Friend'', and in 1998 was transferred to the Literary Book Publishing Department No. 3 of the Literary Bureau. He was mainly in charge of Kodansha Novels and young novelists such as Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Ryūsui Seiryōin, Kouhei Kadono, Ōtarō Maijō, Yuya Sato, Nisio Isin, Kinoko Nasu, and Ryukishi07. He also worked as an editor of the literary magazine ''Mephisto''. His nickname is "J". In 2003, he received the highest rating in Kodansha's internal contest and became the youngest editor in the history of Kodansha. He launched the literary magazine ''Faust Faust ( , ) is the protagonist of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hiroki Azuma
(born May 9, 1971) is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher. He is the co-founder and former director of Genron, an independent institute in Tokyo, Japan. Biography Azuma was born in Mitaka, Tokyo. Azuma received his PhD in Culture and Representation from the University of Tokyo in 1999 and became a professor at the International University of Japan in 2003. He was an Executive Research Fellow and Professor at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM) and a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Japan Center. Since 2006, he has been working at the Center for Study of World Civilizations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Azuma is married to the writer and poet Hoshio Sanae, and they have one child together. His father-in-law is the translator, novelist, and occasional critic Kotaka Nobumitsu. Work Hiroki Azuma is one of the most influential young literary critics in Japan, focusing on literature and on the idea of individual liberty. He began wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magazines Established In 2003
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally financed by advertising, newsagent's shop, purchase price, prepaid subscription business model, subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. They are categorised by their frequency of publication (i.e., as weeklies, monthlies, quarterlies, etc.), their target audiences (e.g., women's and trade magazines), their subjects of focus (e.g., popular science and religious), and their tones or approach (e.g., works of satire or humor). Appearance on the cover of print magazines has historically been understood to convey a place of honor or distinction to an individual or event. Term origin and definition Origin The etymology of the word "magazine" suggests derivation from the Arabic language, Arabic (), the broken plural of () meaning "depot, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Magazines Published In Japan
Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, plays, and poems. It includes both print and digital writing. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed.; see also Homer. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. It can also have a social, psychological, spiritual, or political role. Literary criticism is one of the oldest academic disciplines, and is concerned with the literary merit or intellectual significance of specific texts. The study of books and other texts as artifacts or traditions is instead encompassed by textual criticism or the history of the book. "Literature", as an art form, is sometimes used synonymously with literary fiction, fiction written with the goal of artistic merit, but can also include works in various non-fiction genres, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Establishments In Japan
3 (three) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic numerals, Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otsu-ichi
is the pen name of is a Japanese writer and filmmaker. He is a member of the Mystery Writers of Japan and the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. He made his debut with ''Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse'' while still in high school. Major works include the novel '' Goth'', which was adapted into a comic and a feature film (''Goth: Love of Death'') and the ''Zoo'' short story collections which were also adapted into a feature film. ''Goth'' won the 2003 Honkaku Mystery Award. Tokyopop has published English-language translations of his short story collection '' Calling You'', the novel '' Goth'' and the comic adaptations of both. Another short story, "F-Sensei's Pocket", appears in the English edition of the literary magazine ''Faust''. Career Otsuichi was born on October 21, 1978, in Tanushimaru (now part of Kurume), Fukuoka Prefecture, the eldest son of a family of four with his parents and two older sisters.Yukiko Hayami, ''Gendai no Shōzō Sakka Otsuichi Subete wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukio Mishima Prize
The is a Japanese literary award presented annually. It was established in 1988 in memory of author Yukio Mishima. The Mishima Yukio Prize is explicitly intended for work that "breaks new ground for the future of literature," and prize winners tend to be more controversial and experimental than winners of the more traditional Akutagawa Prize. It is awarded in the same annual ceremony as the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize, which was established by the same sponsor in 1988 to recognize popular writing and genre fiction. Winners Shinchosha, the award's sponsor, maintains an official archive of award nominee and recipient information. Members of the selection committee * From 1st to 4th: Kenzaburō Ōe, Jun Eto, Kenji Nakagami, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teru Miyamoto * From 5th to 8th: Shintaro Ishihara, Jun Eto, Genichiro Takahashi, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teru Miyamoto * From 9th to 12th: So Aono, Shitaro Ishihara, Jun Eto, Yasutaka Tsutsui, Teru Miyamoto * From 13th to 20th: Masahiko S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISBN
The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a numeric commercial book identifier that is intended to be unique. Publishers purchase or receive ISBNs from an affiliate of the International ISBN Agency. A different ISBN is assigned to each separate edition and variation of a publication, but not to a simple reprinting of an existing item. For example, an e-book, a paperback and a hardcover edition of the same book must each have a different ISBN, but an unchanged reprint of the hardcover edition keeps the same ISBN. The ISBN is ten digits long if assigned before 2007, and thirteen digits long if assigned on or after 1 January 2007. The method of assigning an ISBN is nation-specific and varies between countries, often depending on how large the publishing industry is within a country. The first version of the ISBN identification format was devised in 1967, based upon the 9-digit Standard Book Numbering (SBN) created in 1966. The 10-digit ISBN format was developed by the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mook (publishing)
A mook () is a publication which is physically similar to a magazine but is intended to remain on bookstore shelves for longer periods than traditional magazines, and is a popular format in Japan. The term is a portmanteau of "magazine" and "book". It was first used in 1971, at a convention of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Périodique. American examples of mooks include '' Make'' and ''Craft A craft or trade is a pastime or an occupation that requires particular skills and knowledge of skilled work. In a historical sense, particularly the Middle Ages and earlier, the term is usually applied to people occupied in small scale pr ...''. In Japan The format remains popular in Japan, where it has been in use since at least the 1970s. An identical format, predating the term "mook", existed since the 1950s. The number of new mooks published in one year peaked in 2013, with over 8,000 different new mooks published. A little over 6,000 were published in 2019. Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Resale Price Maintenance
Resale price maintenance (RPM) or, occasionally, retail price maintenance is the practice whereby a manufacturer and its distribution (marketing), distributors agree that the distributors will sell the manufacturer's product at certain prices (resale price maintenance), at or above a price floor (minimum resale price maintenance) or at or below a price ceiling (maximum resale price maintenance). If a reseller refuses to maintain prices, either openly or covertly (see grey market), the manufacturer may stop doing business with it. Resale price maintenance is illegal in many jurisdictions. Resale price maintenance prevents resellers from Competition#Economics, competing too fiercely on price, especially with regard to Fungibility, fungible goods. Otherwise, resellers worry it could drive down profits for themselves as well as for the manufacturer. Some argue that the manufacturer may do this because it wishes to keep resellers profitable, thus keeping the manufacturer profitable. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
