| 1980 | |
|---|---|
| Tomi Ungerer | The Three Robbers |
| Desmond Morris | Manwatching |
| Agatha Christie | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side |
| Milton Friedman & Rose Friedman | Free to Choose |
| Cliver Cussler | Vixen 03 |
| Edith Holden | The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady |
| Diagram Group (ed) | Woman's Body |
| Mondadori (ed) | I Geni Dell'arte in 24 vols |
| Trewin Copplestone | Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy | 1981 |
| Erich Scheurmann | Der Papalagi, Die Reden de Suedsee-Haeuptlings Tuiavii aus Tiavea |
| Jeffrey Archer | Kane & Abel |
| Charles Chaplin | My Early Years |
| Clive Cussler | Raise the Titanic |
| Lester C. Thurow | The Zero-Sum Society |
| Richard Bach | Illusion |
| Toni Morrison | The Bluest Eye | 1982 |
| William Kotzwinkle | E.T. |
| Jeremy Rifkin | Entropy |
| Colette Dowling | Cinderella Complex |
| Joanna Cole | My Puppy is Born |
| Earl Mindell | Vitamin Bible |
| Dougal Dixon | After Man |
| Mondadori (ed) | The Picture Encyclopedia of Animals in 10 vols | 1983 |
| James Kahn | The Return of the Jedi |
| Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson | The One Minute Manager |
| Jeffrey Archer | The Prodigal Daughter |
| Edward A. Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck | The Fifth Generation |
| John Irving | The World According to Garp |
| Andromeda Oxford (ed) | Cultural Atlas series in 20 vols | 1984 |
| Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone | The Warlock of Firetop Mountain |
| Dan Kiley | The Peter Pan Syndrome |
| Frederick Forsyth | The Fourth Protocol | 1985 |
| Eric Carle | The Very Busy Spider |
| Steve Jackson | The Citadel of Chaos |
| George Gipe | Back to the Future |
| Tom Clancy | The Hunt for Red October |
| Ian Livingstone | The Forest of Doom |
| Jeffrey Archer | First Among Equals |
| Steve Jackson | The Shamutanti Hill | 1986 |
| Brian Freemantle | Madrigal for Charlie Muffin |
| Jeffrey Archer | A Matter of Honour |
| Susan Varley | Badger's Parting Gifts |
| Andromeda Oxford (ed) | The Encyclopedia of Animals in 20 vols | 1987 |
| Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg | The Jolly Postman |
| Tom Clancey | Red Storm Rising |
| Edward Behr | The Last Emperor |
| William Saroyan | Mama, I Love You |
| David Halberstam | The Reckoning |
| Dale A. Dye | Platoon |
| Clive Cussler | Cyclops |
| Jeffrey Archer | A Quiver Full of Arrows |
| Diane Johnson | Dashiel Hammett: A Life |
| Stephen King | Different Seasons | 1988 |
| Scott Turow | Presumed Innocent |
| Robert D. Ballard | The Discovery of the Titanic |
| Jeffrey Archer | A Twist in the Tale |
| Kevin W. Kelley | The Home Planet | 1989 |
| Leonore Fleischer | Rain Man |
| Craig Shaw Gardner, Bob Gale, and Robert Zemeckis | Back to the Future 2 |
| Tom Clancey | Patriot Games |
| J.M. Coetzee (2003 Nobel Prize laureate for literature) | Life & Times of Michael K. |
| Frederick Forsyth | The Negotiator |
Major titles in the agency's history
This is a list of some of the books whose rights we have handled in the fifty some years of our history. In order to compile the list, we have queried our database for those works which have sold over a certain number of copies in Japan, and used the list generated by this query as a starting point.
However, the importance of a book surely does not rest on sales figures alone, and we have also elected to include a number of titles here which were not originally in the computer generated list.
A different criteria for inclusion has been applied to certain exceptional authors such as Agatha Christie, and for illustrated works, and works honored by literary awards. With regard to continuing series of books such as Anne of Green Gables, Tales of Peter Rabbit, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, Moomin, James Bond, Elmer, Tales of Narnia, Doctor Dolittle, Little Old Mrs. Pepperpot, and Darren Shan, we have included here only the representative early works of each series.