Heibonsha Co., Ltd.

Japanese: 平凡社[株] - へいぼんしゃ
Heibonsha Co., Ltd.
Heibonsha is a publishing company founded by Shimonaka Yasaburo in 1914. After publishing the 60-volume Collection of Modern Popular Literature in the early Showa period, the company established a reputation as an encyclopedia publisher, publishing the 28-volume Encyclopedia from 1931 to 1935. After World War II, the company published the World Encyclopedia, National Encyclopedia, and the new World Encyclopedia, edited by Hayashi Tatsuo, and the monthly magazine Taiyo from 1963, the Toyo Bunko series, the paperback series Heibonsha Library from 1993, and Heibonsha Shinsho from 1999. In 1996, the company established Hitachi Digital Heibonsha, a joint venture with Hitachi, Ltd., to digitize encyclopedias (the digital encyclopedia business has been continued by Hitachi Systems and Services (now Hitachi Solutions) since 2000).
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Japanese:
1914年下中弥三郎が創立した出版社。昭和初期の《現代大衆文学全集》全60巻などを経て,1931年〜1935年《大百科事典》全28巻を刊行,事典出版社として名を高めた。第2次大戦後林達夫編集長による《世界大百科事典》,《国民百科事典》,加藤周一編集長による新《世界大百科事典》,1963年から月刊誌《太陽》,叢書〈東洋文庫〉,1993年からペーパーバック・シリーズ〈平凡社ライブラリー〉を,1999年から〈平凡社新書〉を刊行。1996年日立製作所との合弁会社〈日立デジタル平凡社〉を設立し,百科事典のデジタル化を行う(デジタル百科事業は,2000年より日立システムアンドサービス(現日立ソリューションズ)が継続)。
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