Tuttle Publishing House
The Tuttle Publishing ( english Tuttle Publishing ) was founded in 1948 in Rutland , Vermont (USA) and Tokyo established, Japan, and is now considered a leading publisher of books dedicated to Asian culture, language and history.
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The company's founder, Charles Egbert Tuttle Jr. (1915-1993), joined the US military after graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University . Tuttle came to Japan immediately after the end of the Pacific War and worked there under General Douglas MacArthur . His main task was to revive the Japanese publishing industry after the war . Tuttle stayed in Japan after retiring from military service and founded his own publishing house. The publications still have a Japanese ISBN .
Since its inception in 1948, Tuttle has published more than 6,000 books and now maintains an active backlist of around 2,000 titles. Many of the books, originally published by Charles Tuttle in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, remain popular to this day - evidence of his success as a publisher.
Today, Tuttle publishes 150 new titles each year focusing on Asian languages, Asian food and cooking, gardening and flower arranging, crafts and origami, children's books, martial arts, Asian literature, games and graphic novels, Asian history and culture, health and fitness, self-help and Eastern religion, Asian art and collectibles, interior design and architecture, travel guides, and maps and books.
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- ↑ The “H” indicated the publisher's “History” category. The category “Literature” was displayed with an “L”, the category “Arts” with an “A”. Current logo: "TUTTLE", white on red.