Japanese publishing company
Bungeishunj? Ltd.
株式?社文藝春秋
| Founded
| 1923
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| Founder
| Kan Kikuchi
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| Country of origin
| Japan
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| Headquarters location
| Chiyoda, Tokyo
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| Key people
| Nariyuki Iikubo, president representative director
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| Publication types
| magazines and other publications
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| No.
of employees
| 366 (July 2009)
[1]
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| Official website
| www
.bunshun
.co
.jp
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The company office in Chiyoda, Tokyo
Bungeishunj? Ltd.
(
株式?社文藝春秋
,
Kabushiki-gaisha Bungeishunj?
)
is a Japanese
publishing company
known for its leading monthly magazine
Bungeishunj?
. The company was founded by
Kan Kikuchi
in 1923.
[2]
It grants the annual
Akutagawa Prize
, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan, as well as the annual
Naoki Prize
for popular novelists. It also granted (from 1955 to 2001) the annual
Bungeishunj? Manga Award
for achievement in the manga and illustration fields. It is headquartered in
Chiyoda, Tokyo
.
[1]
The company publishes
Bungakukai
(
文學界
)
, the weekly
Sh?kan Bunshun
(
週刊文春
)
, and the sports magazine
Number
, which represent public opinion of literary, political, and sport-journalistic culture, respectively. The
Bunshun
, in particular, has come to be known for litigation involving freedom of speech issues, particularly alleged privacy violations and defamation; see, for example,
Mitsuo Kagawa
.
List of magazines
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The magazines published by Bungeishunj? include:
- Bungeishunj?
(
文藝春秋
)
(published monthly)
- All Yomimono
(
オ?ル讀物
,
?ru Yomimono
)
(published monthly)
- Sh?kan Bunshun (magazine)
(
週刊文春
)
(published weekly)
- Bungakukai
(
文學界
)
(monthly literary issue)
- Crea
(
クレア
)
(women's quality)
- Shokun
(
諸君!
)
(op-ed magazine)
- Title
(
タイトル
)
- Number
(
ナンバ?
)
Book series
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The book series published by Bungeishunj? include:
- Bunshun Bunko - a "series of literary works"
[3]
Company history
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]
Bungeishunj? was founded in 1923 by writer
Kan Kikuchi
. The company was disbanded in March 1946 but was reestablished in June of the same year.
[1]
In February 1995 the magazine
Marco Polo
[
ja
]
, a 250,000-circulation monthly published by Bungei Shunju, ran a
Holocaust denial
article by physician Masanori Nishioka which stated:
The "
Holocaust
" is a fabrication. There were no execution
gas chambers
in
Auschwitz
or in any other
concentration camp
. Today, what are displayed as "gas chambers" at the remains of the
Auschwitz
camp in Poland are a post-war fabrication by the Polish communist regime or by the
Soviet Union
, which controlled the country. Not once, neither at Auschwitz nor in any territory controlled by the Germans during the
Second World War
, was there "mass murder of Jews" in "gas chambers."
[
citation needed
]
The Los Angeles-based
Simon Wiesenthal Center
instigated a boycott of Bungei Shunju advertisers, including
Volkswagen
,
Mitsubishi
, and
Cartier
. Within days, Bungei Shunju shut down
Marco Polo
and its editor, Kazuyoshi Hanada, quit, as did the president of Bungei Shunju, Kengo Tanaka.
[4]
Contributors and editors
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References
[
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]
- ^
a
b
c
Bungeishunj? company profile and history
Archived
2017-09-10 at the
Wayback Machine
Retrieved on 2 October 2009.
(in Japanese)
- ^
Masayuki Murata; Shinya Machida (14 January 2014).
"Japanese literary awards aim to stay relevant"
.
Dawn
. Tokyo
. Retrieved
23 January
2017
.
- ^
Arase Yukata, "Bungei Sunju, Ltd", in:
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
, Tokyo and New York, NY: Kodansha, 1983, vol. 1, p. 210.
- ^
Schreiber, Mark (December 10, 2016).
"Editors thrive on controversy ? but it can bite back"
.
The Japan Times
. Retrieved
June 29,
2017
.
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