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Bunkasha Publishing Co. Ltd, founded on 1 March 1948, is a distributor and publishing company of books, manga, anime and computer games based in Tokyo, Japan.
Around the turn of the century Bunkasha was for the Japanese-speaking market what Pocket Books was for the English-speaking market, as far as Star Trek reference works were concerned. Most notably they published in those years two book series, one that comprised illustrated bi-lingual reproductions of internal documents, used by Paramount Studios in the production of the various television productions, and the Star Trek: Official Guide book series, comprising in edited form the various Companion books, beefed out with excerpts from the various Technical Manuals and Encyclopedias. A particularly noteworthy outing in that series was Star Trek: Official Guide 4 - Mechanics (1999), a purely Japanese initiative, that covered the subject of studio models, that does not have an English-language counterpart.
Star Trek reference works
- Note: this list is currently incomplete.
- Star Trek: Official Guide 1 - Star Trek The Next Generation - Updated reprint in December 2002
- Star Trek: Official Guide 4 - Mechanics - 1999
- Star Trek: Official Guide 5 - The Ultimate - November 2001
- Star Trek Official Database - November 2002
- Star Trek Next Generation Bible - The Ultimate Writer's/Director's Guide - February 2004
- The Bible II - Star Trek Deep Space Nine & Star Trek Voyager - July 2005