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First East Asia Publishers Conference Tokyo, Japan, September 2005

The First East Asia Publishers Conference took place on September 5 and 6, 2005 at the DNP Ginza Building in Tokyo, Japan. Sponsored by the East Asia Publishers Conference with support from the Toyota Foundation and TransArt Inc., the conference featured presentations on the state of publishing in various regions of East Asia.

The Proceedings of the Tokyo conference have been published in Japanese. You can view the full text in PDF format by clicking on the title under the cover image on this page.

Participants

  • Dong Xiuyu Vice President, China Redactological Society; former President and Editor in Chief, SDX Joint Publishing Co.
  • Chao Feng Vice President, Chinese Editors’ Society
  • Zhou Baiyi Chief Editor, Changjiang Press Group; President, Changjiang Literature and Art Press
  • Shu Wei Editor, SDX Joint Publishing Co.
  • Liu Ruilin Vice President, Guangxi Normal University Press
  • Chen Ruijun Vice President, Guangdong People’s Publishing House
  • Kim Eoun-Ho President, Hangilsa Publishing Co.
  • Han Kyung-Koo Advisor, Ilchokak Publishing Co.; Professor, Kookmin University
  • Kim Si-Yeon President, Ilchokak Publishing Co.
  • Ko Se-hyun President, Changbi Publishers, Inc.
  • Kang Marxill President, Sakyejul Publishing Ltd.
  • Morita Shogo Editorial Director, Misuzu Shobo Publishing Co.
  • Seki Masanori Editor, Heibonsha Limited Publishers
  • Sakamoto Masanori Managing Editor for General Books, Iwanami Shoten, Publishers
  • Kumazawa Toshiyuki Editorial Director, Chikuma Shobo Publishing Co.
  • Takenaka Hidetoshi Editor in Chief, University of Tokyo Press
  • Otsuka Nobukazu Former President, Iwanami Shoten, Publishers
  • Ryusawa Takeshi Former Editorial Director, Heibonsha Limited Publishers
  • Kato Keiji Former President, Misuzu Shobo Publishing Co.
  • Kanie Norio Managing Director, Toyota Foundation
  • Honda Shiro Senior Program Officer, Research Grant Program, Toyota Foundation

Proceedings

Conference Chair: Ryusawa Takeshi

1st Day: Reports and Discussion

Keynote Address

Kato Keiji Toward Publishing in East Asia

Regional Reports

Dong Xiuyu Reform and Learn: The Chinese Publishing Industry
Kim Eoun-Ho Cooperation among Northeast Asian Publishers
Otsuka Nobukazu Japanese Publishing Today

Individual Reports

Han Kyung-Koo To Build a Common Intellectual Background in East Asia
Ko Se-hyun Differences in Editors' Status in Each East Asian Country
Kang Marxill Specialized Book Fairs: Publishing Exchanges through Books and People
Chao Feng The Book Market in Mainland China
Zhou Baiyi Investigation and Analysis of Best-Selling Books in the Chinese Market

Discussion

The Role and Status of Editors

2nd Day: Reports and Discussion

Individual Reports

Shu Wei Changes in the Chinese Publishing System and Scholarly Translations
Liu Ruilin The Pursuit and Development of a Remote Press
Chen Ruijun Chinese Digital Publication: Status Quo and Prospects
Morita Shogo Sharing the Best Books in East Asia
Seki Masanori To Share Different Histories, Not a Common History
Sakamoto Masanori Academia and Publishing Journalism
Kumazawa Toshiyuki The Japanese Paperback
Takenaka Hidetoshi Multinational Seminars among University Presses

Discussion

The Relationship between Editors and Writers

Participants in the First East Asia Publishers Conference, Tokyo

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About EAPC

The East Asia Publishers Conference (EAPC) is composed of publishing professionals from various parts of East Asia who specialize in books on the humanities, social sciences, literature and the arts -- books that form the nucleus of each region's culture. East Asia has enjoyed a long history of cultural interchange via the medium of the printed word, but the past century has seen this flow reduced to a trickle. Now, at a time when books and quality publishing are in crisis, EAPC represents an attempt to restore this flow to its previous vigor. With the support of the Toyota Foundation, EAPC held its inaugural conference in September 2005 in Tokyo, Japan, followed by conferences in Hangzhou, China (March 2006), Seoul, Korea (October 2006) and Hong Kong (March 2007). Reports and discussions at these meetings on the state of East Asian publishing have fostered greater understanding of the problems regional publishers share in common, yielding proposals for specific programs such as the establishment of East Asian copyright standards, training of a new generation of publishing professionals, and compilation of a catalog of essential East Asian literature.

Kato Keiji

Representative, East Asia Publishers Conference

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Proceedings of the First East Asia Publishers Conference

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