Book Fairs, Festivals, Conferences
Asian Festival of Children’s Content is held annually in Singapore.
Japan Writers Conference is held annually in the fall in a different Japan location each year.
Asia and Oceania Regional IBBY Congress is held every two years in a different Asian country.
Bookstores
Hokkaido 北海道
Kodomo Fukido こども富貴堂
Robanoko ろばのこ
Book House Little One ぶっくはうすりとるわん
Miyagi Prefecture 宮城県
Poran ポラン 4-4-4 Chuo, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken 〒980-0021 Tel: 022-265-1936
Yokotaya 横田や
Gunma Prefecture 群馬県
Hon no Ie 木の家
Chiba Prefecture 千葉県
Grimm グリム
Elf 会留府
Kinokuniya Nagareyama Otakanomori Store 紀伊国屋書店 流山おおたかの森店
Tokyo 東京都
Kyobunkan Narnia Bookstore 教文館 ナルニア国
Book House Café ブックハウスカフェ
Crayon House Tokyo クレヨンハウス東京
Chienokinomi ちえの木の実
Book House Jinbocho ブックハウス神保町
Popotame ブックギャラリーポポタム
Tom’s Box トムズボックス
Orion Shobo Norute Store オリオン書房 ノルテ店
Aoyama Book Center 青山ブックセンター
Libro Ikebukuro Store リブロ池袋店
Maruzen Marunouchi Main Store 丸善 丸の内本店
Maruzen and Junkudo Ikebukuro Store ジュンク堂書店池袋店
Kanagawa Prefecture 神奈川県
Meggendorfer しかけ絵本の専門店、鎌倉市
Song Book Café ソングブック・カフェ、鎌倉市
Kotori Bunko ことり文庫、鎌倉市
Yochiyochiya よちよち屋、相模原市
Shizuoka Prefecture 静岡県
Pippo ピッポ
Fukui Prefeture 福井県
Jip Jip じっぷじっぷ本店
Gifu-ken 岐阜県
Ookinaki おおきな木
Tom no Niwa トムの庭
Aichi Prefecture 愛知県
Meruhen House メルヘンハウス
Cesta ツェスタ
Yumebunko Pikot 夢文庫ピコット
Little Bear リトルベア
Mie Prefecture 三重県
Merry Go Round Book Store メリーゴーラウンド
Shiga Prefecture 滋賀県
Kyoto 京都府
Keibunsha Ichijyo Store 恵文社一乗店
Wonderland ワンダーランド
Ehonkan えほん館
Osaka 大阪府
Crayon House Osaka クレヨンハウス大阪
Pennennenemu Green ペンネンネネム グリーン
MOE Garden Nanba Store MOEガーデン なんば店
Standard Bookstore スタンダード ブックストア
Hyogo Prefecture兵庫県
Hitsuji Shobo ひつじ書房房
Okayama Prefecture 岡山県
Hiroshima Prefecture 広島県
Ehontenaburu えほんてなブル
Yamaguchi Prefecture 山口県
Kodomo no Hiroba こどもの広場
Kagawa Prefecture 香川県
U-fu ウーフ
Ehime Prefecture 愛媛県
Kochi Prefecture 高知県
Kokko-san コッコサン
Fukuoka Prefecture 福岡県
Karasuno Honya からすのほんや
Appuppu あっぷっぷ
Nagasaki Prefecture 長崎県
Douwakan 童話館
Miyazaki Prefecture 宮崎県
Kumamoto Prefecture 熊本県
Taketonbo 竹とんぼ
Okinawa Prefecture沖縄県
Rare & Used Children’s Books
Tokyo 東京都
Miwa Shobo
Ehonya-Rusuban -bansuru -kaisha
Dessin
Hyogo Prefecture 兵庫県
Fabulous OLD BOOK ファビュラス オールド ブック
Bookstores Online
Furu hon Umineko
Kid’s Books
Pavilion Books
Cedok Zakka Store チェドック ザッカ ストア
Asia Bookroom carries resources suitable for elementary through high school students with the aim of helping children of all ages engage with Asia.
Austral Ed is a book supplier that specializes in supplying books to international schools in Asia, Europe and the Middle East and publishes a newsletter and recommended book lists for particular topics such as Asia. If you publish a book in English that is set in Asia, send the information to Kate Shephard on this site!
The Asian Review of Books is an online publication specializing in books published in Asia and international titles of interest to readers in Asia.
Amazon Japan
ふぉりくろーる Folklore
Contests and Competitions
The Bologna Illustrators Exhibition is held each year in Bologna, Italy at the Bologna Book Fair. SCBWI member submission deadline is usually one month after the public deadline.
The Scholastic Asian Book Award is an award to recognize excellence in fiction in Asian stories for children.
The SingTel Asian Picture Book Award is an award presented to an illustrator and a writer for an outstanding unpublished picture book with a distinctly Asian theme.
Info on Writing and Illustrating
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is the international organization for writers, illustrators, editors and publishers of children’s literature. SCBWI Japan and other chapters such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, and India are active in Asia.
The Society of Writers, Editors and Translators based in Tokyo, holds monthly events for people with an interest in writing, editing and translating in Japan.
The Purple Crayon is Harold Underdown’s site on writing, illustrating and publishing children’s books.
Author Mem Fox has a site with many helpful tips on writing picture books.
Writer’s Digest is an online guide for writers.
Poetry Foundation has a section on writing poetry for children and recommended poetry books for children
Museums, Galleries and Libraries
Hokkaido 北海道
Kenbuchimachi Picture Book Museum 剣淵町絵本の館
Yamagata Prefecture 山形県
Hirosuke Hamada Museum 浜田広介記念館
Iwate Prefecture 岩手県
Kenji Miyazawa Museum 宮沢賢治記念館
Toyama Prefecture 富山県
Oshima Museum of Picture Books 射水市大島絵本館
Tochigi Prefecture 栃木県
Nasu Teddy Bear Museum 那須テディベアーミュージアム
The Iwamura Kazuo Ehon-no-Oka Bijutsukan いわむらかずお絵本の丘美術館 is in Nasu City
Kanagawa Prefecture 神奈川県
The Little Prince Museum 星の王子さまミュージアム
Yo Shomei Museum 葉祥明美術館
Saitama Prefecture 埼玉県
Daito Bunka University Beatrix Potter Reference Library 大東文化大学 ビアトリクス・ポター資料館
Urawa Museum うらわ美術館
Gunma Prefecture 群馬県
F-ritz Art Center フリッツ・アートセンター
Tokyo 東京
The International Library of Children’s Literature 国立国会図書館 国際子ども図書館 in Ueno, Tokyo, provides internationally linked library services for children’s literature, has extensive collections of Japanese and overseas titles.
Tokyo Children’s Library 京子ども図書館
Itabashi Art Museum 板橋区立美術間 holds exhibits throughout the year including the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition each summer. See for details on exhibits and on the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in Japanese.
Itabashi Bologna Children’s Picture Book Library いたばしボロニャ子ども絵本館
Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo ちひろ美術館東京 (練馬区下石神井)
Kyobunkan Narnia Bookstore 教文館 子どもの本のみせナルニア国
Crayon House Tokyo クレヨンハウス東京
Anne of Green Gables-Hanako Muraoka Bunko Library 赤毛のアン記念館・村岡花子文庫
Gallery Tom ギャラリーTOM
Ghibli Museum 三鷹の森ジブリ美術館
Yayoi Museum 弥生美術館
Biliken Shokai Gallery ビリケン商会
Pin Point Gallery ピンポイントギャラリー
Tom’s Box トムズ・ボックス
Tokyo Toy Museum 東京おもちゃ美術館
Yamanashi Prefecture 山梨県
Mori no Nakano Ehonkan 森の中の絵本館
Ehon Museum Kiyosato 絵本ミュージアム清里
Kuroi Ken Ehon House 黒井健絵本ハウス
Ehon no Ki Museum 絵本の樹美術館
Kunpei Story Book Museum くんぺい童話館
Kobuchizawa Picture Book Museum 小淵沢絵本館
Ehon Mura えほん村 in Kobuchizawa-machi.
Philia Museum フィリア美術館
Yabuuchi Masayuki Museum 薮内正幸美術館
Nagano Prefecture 長野県
Madarao Art Museum of Children Books 斑尾高原絵本美術館
Musee Peynet ペイネ美術館
The Karuizawa Museum of Picture Book 軽井沢絵本の森美術館
Chisana Ehon Bijutsukan, Yatsugatake Museum 八ヶ岳小さな絵本美術館
Chisana Ehon Bijutsukan, Okaya Museum 小さな絵本美術館
Ilf Doga Museum イルフ童画館
Chihiro Art Museum Azumino 安曇野ちひろ美術館
Picture Book Museum Mori no Ouchi 絵本美術館森のおうち
Azumino Ehonkan Picture Book Museum 安曇野絵本館
Kurohime StoryBook Museum and Gallery 黒姫童話館・童話の森ギャラリー
Shizuoka Prefecture 静岡県
Murakami Yasunari Museum 村上康成美術館
Brian Wildsmith Museum 伊豆高原ワイルドスミス絵本美術館
Toda Koshiro Picture Book Museum 戸田幸四郎絵本美術館
Aichi Prefecture 愛知県
Niimi Nankichi Museum 新美南吉記念館
Meruhen House Book Store メルヘンハウス
Mie Prefecture 三重県
Merry Go Round Book Store メリーゴーラウンド
Gifu Prefecture 岐阜県
Hida Picture Book Museum Porepore House 飛騨絵本美術ポレポレハウス
Shiga Prefecture 滋賀県
Higashi Omi Public Library 滋賀県東近江市立図書館
Kyoto 京都府
Kyoto Kokusai Manga Museum 京都国際まんがミュージアム is dedicated to manga research and culture.
Osaka 大阪府
International Institute for Children‘s Literature Osaka 大阪府立国際児童文学館(IICLO) has an online gallery displaying 100 Japanese children’s books dating from 1868-1945.
Crayon House Osaka クレヨンハウス大阪
Shimane Prefecture 島根県
The Mitsumasa Anno Museum 安野光雅美術館
Hamada Children’s Museum of Art 浜田市世界こども美術館
Kochi Prefecture 高知県
Yokoyama Memorial Manga Museum 横山隆一記念まんが館
Yanase Takashi Museum-Anpanman Museum 香美市立やなせたかし記念館 Miyazaki Prefecture 宮崎県
Kijo Picture Book Village 木城えほんの郷
Kagoshima Prefecture 鹿児島県
Kagoshima Marchen Fairytale Museum かごしまメルヘン館
Nagasaki Prefecture 長崎県
Inori no Oka Picture Book Museum 祈りの丘絵本美術館
Organizations and Other Sites
The Japan Board on Books for Young People (JBBY) is the Japan chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), a nonprofit organization for people committed to bringing books and children together.
Kamishibai for Kids introduces the Japanese picture-card story form called kamishibai. • International Kamishibai Association of Japan introduces the Japanese picture card story form called kamishibai.
Yamaneko Honyaku Club covers publishing and children’s books in Japan. In Japanese, with an English section being developed.
BookDragon is a book review blog produced by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) and sometimes reviews of Japan and Asia children’s and YA titles.
Cynthia Leitich Smith has an extensive section on children’s and YA literature resources.
Achuka is a U.K. site that features interviews with children’s authors and recommended children’s books.
The International Children’s Digital Library is a digital children’s library.
Database of Award Winning Children’s Literature is an extensive compilation of award-winning books from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia and New Zealand with explanations of awards available.
The Children’s Book Council (CBC) is the New York-based nonprofit trade association of publishers and packagers of trade books and related materials for children and young adults.
Kidlit.com is an informative site for writers of children’s literature written by Mary Kole.
SCBWI is the main site for the international organization the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators of which SCBWI Japan is a chapter.
Publishers and Agencies
Japanese Association of Children’s Book Publishers has links to children’s publishers in Japan.
Publisher’s Weekly has a Children’s Bookshelf weekly e-mail newsletter on children’s books and publishing.
SCBWI Japan has a list of Children’s Book Publishers in Japan.
