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30-528: From its inception, the label sponsored the Kodansha Box Newcomer Award, and actively introduced new authors and illustrators to the world. It also published the magazine Pandora from 2008 to 2009 and the electronic magazine BOX-AiR from February 2011. Editor Katsushi Ōta described the label as: "A collection of works on the theme of adolescent self-consciousness. I hope it becomes an index of Japanese popular culture ." Kodansha Box launched as

60-600: A humid subtropical climate ( Köppen climate classification Cfa ). The average annual temperature in Kurashiki is 15.8 °C (60.4 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,042.2 mm (41.03 in) with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.9 °C (82.2 °F), and lowest in January, at around 4.6 °C (40.3 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Kurashiki

90-557: A population density of 1300 persons per km . The total area of the city is 355.63 square kilometres (137.31 sq mi). Kurashiki is located in the south-central part of Okayama Prefecture, and the Takahashi River flows through the midwestern part of the city from north to south and empties into the Seto Inland Sea . Most of the plains are occupied by reclaimed land and alluvial plains , and are relatively flat except for

120-465: A Japanese writer, poet, or screenwriter is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article about a print editor is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kurashiki Kurashiki ( 倉敷市 , Kurashiki-shi ) is a city located in Okayama Prefecture , Japan . As of 31 March 2023 , the city had an estimated population of 478,651 and

150-516: A box, and in its final years, the color and shape of the boxes was changed for each book, and many were published in soft covers. It also sponsored the Kodansha BOX Newcomer Award from its inception, and from 2008 to 2009 also published the magazine Pandora as a branch from Faust . The number of books published reached 100 with Seiji Kagami's Shiro no Danshō in May 2009, but this counts only

180-471: A place for creators and readers to gather. For a time, an official corner was also set up within amazon.co.jp, where interviews with authors could be read, and reviews by actress Mikako Tabe and voice actress Mai Nakahara were posted, among other proactive PR efforts. Ōta stated that the Kodansha Box editorial department under him was gradually developing "a kind of culture unique to the department," since

210-542: A publishing company established as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kodansha. 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

240-579: A result, the main writers other than Nisio Isin left the label. All of the above special projects were retooled and Pandora ceased publication. The number of publications also declined due to a lack of editorial staff and writers. The launch of Kodansha Box was based on the success of Faust , first published in 2003, but the literary movement of the 00s' fusion of light novels , genre novels, and literature subsided, and no star authors emerged to follow Nisio Isin, Ōtarō Maijō , Yuya Sato , Kinoko Nasu , etc. The movement had been stalling since around 2009, and

270-695: A special exception, as Katsushi Ōta, the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Faust and a member of Kodansha's Literary Book Publishing Department No. 3, was transferred to the newly established Overseas Literature Publishing Department in October 2006. The label's slogan is "Everything is boxed, KODANSHA BOX. It is you who will open it." Ōta, who was the first department head, stepped down in December 2008 and established Seikaisha. Instead, Naoki Akimoto, who had been in charge of Soji Shimada , Kenji Takemoto, Yukito Ayatsuji , and Yutaka Maya at Kodansha Novels, became

300-587: A theme park called Tivoli (after the park of the same name in Copenhagen ) opened near Kurashiki Station. After ten years of operation it was closed in 2008, with a massive debt. The Great Seto Bridge connects the city to Sakaide in Kagawa Prefecture across the Inland Sea. Kenzo Tange , winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture, designed the former Kurashiki City Hall in 1960. Kurashiki has

330-606: Is called the Bikan historical area. It contains many fine examples of 17th century wooden warehouses ( kura , 倉) painted white with traditional black tiles, along a canal framed with weeping willows and filled with koi . The area has no electric poles in order to make it more closely resemble the look of the Meiji period. One of the city's former town halls was located in the Kurashiki Kan, a European style building constructed in 1917. In 1997

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360-518: Is home to several private universities and one public university. Kurashiki has 62 public elementary schools, and 26 public junior high schools and five public high school operated by the city government. There are ten public high schools operated by the Okayama Prefectural Board of Education and on combined middle/high school. In addition, there are four private high schools. The prefecture also operates three special education schools for

390-628: The Japanese Paleolithic period, more than 20,000 years ago, and the city has numerous National Historic Sites from Jōmon period shell middens , Yayoi period settlement remains, Kofun period burial mounds and Nara period temple ruins. From the Heian period , the estuary of the Takahashi River was a port, and the surrounding area was the setting for numerous battles. During the Edo Period ,

420-415: The Kodansha Box name has remained as a publication label for Nisio Isin's Monogatari series, Bōkyaku Tantei series, and novelizations, but no other series have been published. In March 2020, the official website of the label was shut down. Katsushi %C5%8Cta Katsushi Ōta ( 太田 克史 , Ōta Katsushi , born March 22, 1972) is a Japanese editor. As of 2020, he is president of Seikaisha,

450-535: The Kojima area. Kojima, Kameshimayama, Tamashima, and Tsurajima are many places in the city that have the kanji 'island' in their names; these areas were originally islands and were connected by land reclamation to form the current city limits. Okayama City, which is the prefectural capital, is adjacent to the east, and Kurashiki forms part of the Greater Okayama metropolitan area. Okayama Prefecture Kurashiki has

480-525: 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

510-596: The Okayama 4th district and Okayama 5th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Kurashiki is the second largest city in Okayama, and has a mixed economy based on commerce, agriculture and heavy industry. The Mizushima Rinkai Industrial Area, which spans the Mizushima and Tamashima areas, has factories centering on petrochemicals, steel, automobiles, and shipbuilding and is one of Japan's leading industrial complexes. The city

540-522: The area had a complicated administration, with portions held by various feudal domains. The old town of Kurashiki and its port was held directly by the Tokugawa shogunate as tenryō territory and was a collection point for the annual rice taxes. Distinctive white-walled, black-tiled warehouses were built to store goods. The Kurashiki magistrate's office recognized the autonomy of the merchants and gave preferential treatment to them, resulting in an increase in

570-491: The books published in the silver box. In the early and middle years of the label's history, it also conducted a number of special projects without regard to profitability. These included Hiroki Azuma 's Zero Academy Dojo (March 2008–August 2009), in which new critics were selected and trained to make their debut, Daisuke Nishijima's Inspirational☆Manga School (July 2009–), in which all 16 participants aimed to debut as manga artists, and KOBOCAFE (May–August 2008), which created

600-476: The disabled. The city has a North Korean school , Okayama Korean Elementary and Junior High School ( 岡山朝鮮初中級学校 ) . [REDACTED] JR West (JR West) - San'yō Shinkansen [REDACTED] JR West (JR West) - San'yō Main Line [REDACTED] JR West (JR West) - Hakubi Line Mizushima Rinkai Railway - Mizushima Main Line [REDACTED] Ibara Railway Company - Ibara Line Kurashiki maintains

630-468: The following sister cities : Kurashiki is the home of Japan's first museum for Western art , the Ohara Museum of Art . Established in 1930 by Magosaburō Ōhara , it contains paintings by El Greco , Monet , Matisse , Gauguin , and Renoir . The collection also presents fine examples of Asian and contemporary art. The main building is designed in the style of Neoclassicism . The old merchant quarter

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660-413: The goal of it becoming the general label for novels, manga, and nonfiction, though he continued to serve as editor-in-chief of Faust at the same time. In December 2008, he was transferred from Kodansha Box as editor-in-chief (head of the department) and became senior manager of Kodansha's Literary Bureau, which was attached to Kodansha Box. It was commented that this was "necessary to take Kodansha Box to

690-520: The history of Kodansha. He launched the literary magazine Faust as a one-man editorial team. For a long time, he was a member of Kodansha's Literary Book Publishing Department No. 3, but in October 2006, he was transferred to the newly established Kodansha's International Literature Publishing Department, and launched the Kodansha Box line in November 2006. He served as Kodansha Box's editor-in-chief with

720-475: The label split between Kodansha Box and Seikaisha was the decisive factor in the decline. In August 2015, with the launch of the new Kodansha Taiga label, it became public knowledge that the authors had been reorganized, and after Pandora ceased publication, the electronic magazine BOX-AiR , which was launched with the participation of King Records , also ended publication with its 52nd issue in July 2015. Since then,

750-529: The next level." In 2010, he was appointed vice president of Seikaisha, a new company established independent of Kodansha Box, which came under the jurisdiction of the Literary Bureau, and was merged with Literary Book Publishing Department No. 3. All the main writers except Nisio Isin, Ōtarō Maijō, and Ryūsui Seiryōin joined the company, with replacements such as Yūri Shibamura, while his role as editor-in-chief for Faust remained unchanged. In 2020, he became president and CEO of Seikaisha. This article about

780-448: The offices were located in the new Kodansha Annex 1, which was built in 2007 and was adjacent to the main building, but in a different location. No other book-based editorial department at Kodansha had a place where writers come to visit the editorial department every day, and he was proud of that. In 2010, Ōta, who had left Kodansha Box's planning and editing division in 2008, launched a new company, Seikaisha, and became vice president. As

810-466: The population as well as increased kokudaka , and local industries included cotton cloth weaving and salt production. Following the Meiji restoration , the village of Kurashiki was established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on June 1, 1889. It was raised to town status on April 1, 1891 and to city status April 1, 1928. On August 1, 2005, the town of Mabi (from Kibi District ), and

840-447: The second department head (from December 2008). Later, it was reported in the official e-mail magazine in March 2011 that "P" became the third head of the department. Tatsunobu Satō, aka "P," later served as editor-in-chief of Gunzo from 2016 to 2019. The label published novels, manga, and critiques in a unified "silver box" format, but also published "Kodansha Box Pieces" that were not in

870-483: The town of Funao (from Asakuchi District ) were merged with Kurashiki. In 2002, Kurashiki was designed a Core city with increased local autonomy. Kurashiki has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 43 members. Kurashiki contributes 14 members to the Okayama Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the city is divided between

900-430: Was 37.1 °C (98.8 °F) on 8 August 1994; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −8.0 °C (17.6 °F) on 27 February 1981. Per Japanese census data, the population of Kurashiki in 2020 is 474,592 people. Kurashiki has been conducting censuses since 1960. The Kurashiki area is part of ancient Bitchū Province and near the center of the ancient Kingdom of Kibi . Records of human settlements date back to

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