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
スタイルガイド](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB%E3%82%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%89)
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 『記者ハンドブック
新聞用字用語集』([official](http://www.kyodo.co.jp/kkservice/HB/),
[Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4764106191/)) by 共同通信社.
[共同通信社](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyodo_News) 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
『日本語表記ルールブック』 by 日本エディタースクール, 『新しい国語表記ハンドブック』 by 三省堂, 『NHKことばのハンドブック』 by
日本放送協会, 『朝日新聞の用語の手引』by 朝日新聞 and so on.




The most well known style guide for the media is 『記者ハンドブック
新聞用字用語集』([official](http://www.kyodo.co.jp/kkservice/HB/),
[Amazon](http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4764106191/)) by 共同通信社.
[共同通信社](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyodo_News) 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
『日本語表記ルールブック』 by 日本エディタースクール, 『新しい国語表記ハンドブック』 by 三省堂, 『NHKことばのハンドブック』 by
日本放送協会, 『朝日新聞の用語の手引』by 朝日新聞 and so on.

