- Hakubunkan
(son of the founder of the company) and Tomiyama Tadatsugu.
Hakubunkan then established Tōkyōdō (the predecessor of
Tōkyōdō Shoten andTohan Corporation ) in 1891. The following year, Tōkyōdō moved to Hongoku, a neighborhood ofNihonbashi in Tokyo (now located in Chūō). In 1893, Tōkyōdō became a domestic and foreignnews agency .At the beginning of 1895, Hakubunkan began publishing the general interest magazine ] The library is located in the
Shiba Park neighborhood of Minato Ward in Tokyo.Due to the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, the building which housed the headquarters of Hakubunkan was destroyed by fire, and the company relocated to the Tozaki area of
Koishikawa , Tokyo (now part of Bunkyō Ward).After the magazine "Taiyō" ceased publication in 1927, Hakubunkan continued to operate in the red, finally splitting into three companies in 1948: Hakuyūsha, Kōyūsha, and Kōbunkan. Hakuyūsha began using the Hakubunkan name again in 1949 before changing it again to Hakubunkan Shinsha in 1950.
Magazines
Hakubunkan has published many magazines, including the following:
*"Bungei Club " (文芸倶楽部)
*"Chūgaku Sekai " (中学世界)
*"Jogaku Sekai " (女学世界)
*"Kōdan Zasshi " (講談雑誌)
*"Nihon Taika Ronshū " (日本大家論集)
*"Nōgyō Sekai " (農業世界)
*"Pocket" (ポケット)
*"Shin Seinen " (新青年, 1920-1950)
*"Shōjo Sekai " (1906-1939)
*"Shōnen Sekai "
*"Shōnen Shōjo Tankai " (少年少女譚海)
*"Taiyō" (1895-1927)
*"Tantei Shōsetsu " (探偵小説)
*"Yōnen Gahō " (幼年画報)
*"Yōnen Sekai " (幼年世界)References
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