List of previous messages from the Director
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Apr. 11, 2025Message from the new director inaugurated on April 1, 2025
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Dec. 19, 2024World Book Design 2023-24 Now Open
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Oct. 8, 2024“Modern Japan Package 2024” has begun
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Sep. 25, 2024100 Years of Phototypesetting has begun
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Jul. 23, 2024Welcome to The Galaxy of Letterpress
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Apr. 30, 2024GRAPHIC TRIAL 2024 -asobi- begins
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Dec. 12, 2023World Book Design 2022-2023 Now Open
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Nov. 21, 2023"The Media King of the Meiji era: Kazumasa Ogawa and Photomechanical Process" has begun
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Oct. 3, 2023"Modern Japan Package 2023" begins
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Jul. 25, 2023The Origin of Anpanman
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Director’s Profile
Kyogoku Natsuhiko
Director
Printing Museum, Tokyo
Born in 1963, Kyogoku Natsuhiko made a debut as a novelist with his work The Summer of the Ubume in 1994. Since then, he earned numerous literary and other awards, including the 49th Mystery Writers of Japan Award in the novel category for Moryo no Hako in 1996, the 25th Izumi Kyoka Prize for Literature for Warau Iemon in 1997, the 8th Kuwasawa Award in 2000, the 16th Yamamoto Shugoro Prize for Nozoki Koheiji in 2003, the 130th Naoki Prize for Nochi no Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari in 2004, the 24th Shibata Renzaburo Award for Nishi no Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari in 2011, and the 56th Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Toku no Kosetsu Hyaku Monogatari in 2022.