Five OUP graded readers, It's Hot (Oxford Read and Imagine), Mulan (Classic Tales), The Snow Tigers (Oxford Read and Imagine), Hope on Turtle Island (Oxford Read and Imagine) and Emma (Oxford Bookworms) have been shortlisted as finalists in this year's Extensive Reading Foundation Language Learner Literature Awards. Every year the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English and awards winners in 6 categories. This year's winners will be chosen later this year. 

We would like to inform you that the web system maintenance scheduled on March 22 has been completed successfully. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

Thanks to all who took part in this year's Oxford Big Read. Out of hundreds of fantastic entries, 5 National Prize winners and 3 Kinokuniya Prize winners were chosen. See the winners and honorable mentions here.​

What were the most popular OUP books among scholars and general readers in Japan for 2017? Check out our bestseller list, including titles on Japan and long-selling higher education textbooks. View the full list.​

Oxford University Press will close from Friday, December 29th, 2017 through Monday, January 8th, 2018 for the winter holidays. Regular business will resume at noon on Tuesday, January 9th, 2018.

Two scholars of Japanese history and culture who publish from OUP happen to be in Tokyo to give talks based on their recent books.

Akiko Hashimoto (Visiting Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Portland State University, and Faculty Fellow of Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology) is invited by the Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS) at Temple University’s Japan Campus to give a talk titled Something Dreadful Happened in the Past: Generational Memory of War and Peace in Japan in the evening of 9th November. The talk will be based on her book, The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory and Identity in Japan, published by OUP in 2015. The book won the 2016 Scholarly Achievement Award of the North Central Sociological Association, and has recently been translated into Japanese (Nihon no Nagai Sengo, Misuzu Shobō Publishers, 2017). Details of this lecture may be found on this page of the Temple University Japan Campus website.

On the 25th of November, Helen Hardacre (Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society at Harvard University) will give a special public lecture titled Current Issues in English-Language Studies of Shinto based on her book, Shinto: A History, published by OUP in 2016, during an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Organization for the Advancement of Research and Development at Kokugakuin University. She will also be one of the panelists in a one-day forum titled How Do We Teach About Japanese Religions?, organized by Kokugakuin’s Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, to be held on the following day. Both events will be held at the University’s Shibuya campus. Seats are limited and pre-registration is required. Please click here for more information about the lecture and here for more information about the forum.

Oxford University Press will be closed for business on Wednesday, November 1st in observance of the company foundation day. Business as usual will resume from Thursday, November 2nd.

Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene, published by OUP, has been voted the most influential science book of all time in a public poll held by the Royal Society to celebrate 30 years of their book awards. Second place was awarded to Bill Bryson for A Short History of Nearly Everything, followed closely by Charles Darwin' s On the Origin of Species. For more details, please visit the Royal Society website.

OUP author June Teufel Dreyer, a professor at University of Miami, has been named the 4th Kokkiken Japan Study Award recipient for her study The Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present (2016, OUP). The award is given by the Japan Institute for National Fundamentals to non-Japanese researchers including first generation naturalized persons who conducted outstanding research which increases the understanding of Japan in the areas of politics, national security, diplomacy, history, education and culture. Her neutral analysis based on thorough objective research was evaluated and honored this time.

We are pleased to inform that the long-awaited Oxford Reading Tree (ORT) Tadoku Pack ‘with CD’ version is now available. This pack contains all ORT packs from Stage 1+ to 9 (30 packs, total 180 books) and 30 audio CDs. This special pack, suitable for schools and libraries interested in extensive reading, is now available for purchase only on the OUP Japan website. Learn more.

Limits to Globalization: The Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development by Eric Sheppard, Alexander von Humboldt Chair, UCLA, received the Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography awarded by the American Association of Geographers (AAG). The AAG awards the annual prize for a book that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography, written or co-authored by a geographer published in the previous calendar year.

The issue surrounding our network which occurred on February 20 has now been resolved. Our technical support teams are still investigating what caused the problem, and are working to ensure this does not happen again in the future. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you during this very busy time of year and we thank you for your understanding.

The Say It: Pronunciation from Oxford app has won the 2016 ESU (English Speaking Union) President's Award in the category of new technology in English language teaching. This app improves pronunciation and fluency using content from OUP's dictionaries. You can listen to 30,000 model recordings, record yourself and compare your pronunciation both by listening and by visually comparing the audio waves. This visual recognition helps students understand key sounds. Learn more about the award.

Irregular Office Hours on January 10th
Our office will open at 10:30 on Tuesday January 10th, 2017 for a company-wide conference. We will close for business at 17:00 as usual. We apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.

'Post-truth', an adjective defined as 'relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief' was named Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2016. This word appeared frequently this year in the context of the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the US. Please click here for more details.

Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band, from the Dominoes series published by Oxford University Press, was selected as the winner of the 2016 Language Learner Literature Award in the Adolescent & Adult: Beginner Category. Every year the Extensive Reading Foundation recognizes the best new works of language learner literature in English and awards winners in 6 categories. Also selected as a finalist this year was 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, from the Oxford Bookworms Library, in the Adolescent & Adult Intermediate Category. Learn more here.

Oxford University Press will be closed for business on Tuesday, November 1st in observance of the company foundation day. Business as usual will resume from Wednesday, November 2nd.

Due to a recent security release from Adobe Flash Player, all iTools products require an update to function properly. If you are currently using any iTools, please click here to download your iTools update. You will find a file to download and install on your computer as well as step-by-step instructions to help you. If you experience any issues while installing this update, or after the installation, please get in touch with us by email at eltsupport@oup.com or by phone at +44 (0)1865 910007.  We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience.

Oxford University Press will be closed from Monday, August 15th through Tuesday, August 16th for the annual Obon holidays. Regular business will resume on Wednesday, August 17th. 

Oxford University Press will conduct a workshop featuring experienced teacher-trainers demonstrating practical teaching methods. This will be valuable for all primary school teachers no matter what kind of teaching materials you use. Click here for details and to register online. (Japanese only)

Oxford University Press is currently looking for an ELT Consultant to join our motivated and experienced bilingual sales and marketing team. Please click here for more details.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Oxford University Press Japan website was temporarily closed from 11:00 until 17:00 on March 23rd. We apologize for any inconvenience caused during this suspension.

Oxford University Press will close from Monday, December 28th, 2015 through Tuesday, January 5th, 2016. Regular business will resume at 10:30am on Wednesday, January 6th, 2016. 
 

We are delighted to announce the release of its 9th edition of its world bestseller, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) in Japan. Having sold over 38 million copies since the publication of the 1st edition, this dictionary has helped English learners understand what words mean and how to use them for nearly 70 years. The new 9th edition is much more than an A-Z dictionary: it is the ultimate speaking and writing tool. Also in this edition, words of Japanese origin including 'shonen' and 'shojo' have been added. Please click here for more details.

It is our priority to provide our customers with the highest quality educational materials in Japan. As an importer of international materials, our business is affected by exchange rates and rising costs in production. As a result, from October 1, 2015 the prices of some of our ELT materials, UK School Books and Children's Books will change. For a list of all prices of our materials, please see our 2016 ELT Catalogue. For enquiries, please contact your local ELT consultant or email us atelt.japan@oup.com.

Oxford Discover, a primary course book focusing on 21st century skills, was awarded the ELTons Award 2015 Excellence in Course Innovation. In addition, the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English, a unique dictionary to help students learn the language they need to write academic English, was selected as the Innovation in Learner Resources. These annual awards presented by the British Council celebrate innovation and good practice in the field of the English language and English language teaching.

The author of The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe (Oxford University Press, 2014), David I. Kertzer was awarded the2015 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. His writings have been previously nominated for the National Book Award and Mark Lynton History Prize, and have been garnering attention in the field. He is active in the areas of anthropology, history and Italian studies.

The issue surrounding our online practice websites has now been resolved. Pleaseclick here for the details. Our technical support teams are still investigating what caused the problem, and are working to ensure this does not happen again in the future. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you during this very busy time of year and we thank you for your understanding.

We recently launched the Oxford Reading Tree (ORT) facebook page. See the latest information and news for ORT in Japan. (Page available in Japanese only). Click the link below to access the page. www.facebook.com/ORT.Japan