What are the major prescriptive style guides for Japanese prose? What are the major prescriptive style guides for writing regular Japanese prose (as opposed to e.g. technical writing)? I suspect that this question will have a fairly short list as an answer - if you were to ask the same about American English, you'd get the _Chicago Manual of Style_ , the _Associated Press Stylebook_ , the _MLA Style Manual_ , and maybe a couple others at most (e.g. some might suggest _The Elements of Style_ or the APA's style guide). (The Japanese Wikipedia article is strangely silent on Japanese style guides aside from a couple external links, though I suspect there is information I could find elsewhere - if only I knew what the style guides were called!)

The most well known style guide for the media is (official, Amazon) by . is a famous news agency, thus I think it's basically the Japanese equivalent of the AP Stylebook. I used it on a daily basis, because I was a magazine writer/editor. Others are by , by , NHK by , by and so on.