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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese publisher of dictionaries
Japanese dictionaries

Japanese dictionaries have a history that began over 1300 years ago when Japanese Buddhist priests, who wanted to understand Chinese sutras, adapted Chinese character dictionaries....
, literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
, manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
, non-fiction
Non-fiction

Non-fiction is an document or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question....
, DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
s, and other media in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
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Shogakukan founded Shueisha
Shueisha

is a major publisher in Japan, headquartered in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan....
 which founded Hakusensha
Hakusensha

is a Japanese publishing firm, founded December 1, 1973 by Shueisha, but now a separate company. It is best known in the Western world as a publisher of shojo manga, though the seinen magazine Young Animal is its second best selling as of 2003, after Hana to Yume....
. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group
Hitotsubashi Group

The is a keiretsu publishing group in Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. It is comprised of Shogakukan, Shueisha, Hakusensha and related publishing companies....
, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan. Shogakukan is located at Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Chiyoda, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards in central Tokyo, Japan. In English, it calls itself Chiyoda City. As of October 2007, the ward has an estimated population of 45,543 and a population density of 3,912 persons per km?, making it by far the least populated of the special wards....
, and the other two companies are located in the same ward.








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is a Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese publisher of dictionaries
Japanese dictionaries

Japanese dictionaries have a history that began over 1300 years ago when Japanese Buddhist priests, who wanted to understand Chinese sutras, adapted Chinese character dictionaries....
, literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
, manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
, non-fiction
Non-fiction

Non-fiction is an document or representation of a subject which is presented as fact. This presentation may be accurate or not; that is, it can give either a true or a false account of the subject in question....
, DVD
DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
s, and other media in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
.

Shogakukan founded Shueisha
Shueisha

is a major publisher in Japan, headquartered in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan....
 which founded Hakusensha
Hakusensha

is a Japanese publishing firm, founded December 1, 1973 by Shueisha, but now a separate company. It is best known in the Western world as a publisher of shojo manga, though the seinen magazine Young Animal is its second best selling as of 2003, after Hana to Yume....
. These are three separate companies, but are together called the Hitotsubashi Group
Hitotsubashi Group

The is a keiretsu publishing group in Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. It is comprised of Shogakukan, Shueisha, Hakusensha and related publishing companies....
, one of the largest publishing groups in Japan. Shogakukan is located at Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Chiyoda, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards in central Tokyo, Japan. In English, it calls itself Chiyoda City. As of October 2007, the ward has an estimated population of 45,543 and a population density of 3,912 persons per km?, making it by far the least populated of the special wards....
, and the other two companies are located in the same ward.

Shogakukan in the US


Shogakukan company, along with Shueisha
Shueisha

is a major publisher in Japan, headquartered in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan....
, owns Viz Media
VIZ Media

Viz Media, LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, California, California, United States, is an anime, manga and Japanese entertainment company founded in 1986 as Viz, LLC....
, which publishes manga from both companies in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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Shogakukan's licensing arm in North America was ShoPro Entertainment; it was merged into Viz Media in 2005.

Shogakukan's production arm is Shogakukan Productions Co.,Ltd. (now Shogakukan Shueisha Productions)

List of magazines published by Shogakukan


Manga magazines


Male oriented manga magazines

Kodomo
Kodomo

and the similar term, , are Japanese Language terms which literally mean "manga directed towards children"."Kodomo" works are noted for stories that are often very moralistic, teaching children how to behave as good and considerate people....
 manga magazines
  • CoroCoro Comic
    CoroCoro Comic

    is a Japanese monthly manga magazine published by Shogakukan, starting in April 15, 1977. Its main target is elementary school aged boys, younger than the readers of shonen manga....
  • Bessatsu CoroCoro Comic
  • CoroCoro Ichiban!


Shonen
Shonen

is a genre of manga with a demographic of young boys generally between the ages of about 10 and 18. Examples include Dragon Ball , Naruto, Bleach , Case Closed, One Piece, Rurouni Kenshin, InuYasha, Death Note, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Yu-Gi-Oh....
 manga magazines
  • Shonen Sunday
    Shonen Sunday

    is a weekly shonen manga magazine published by Shogakukan....
  • Shonen Sunday Super
    Shonen Sunday Super

    is a bi-monthly shonen manga magazine published by Shogakukan....


Seinen
Seinen

is a subset of manga that is generally targeted at an 18–30 year old male audience, but the audience can be much older with some comics aimed at businessmen well into their 40s....
 manga magazines
  • Big Comic
    Big Comic

    is a semimonthly seinen List of manga magazines published since 1968-02-29 by Shogakukan in Japan. It was originally launched as a monthly magazine, but switched to twice monthly on the 10th and 25th beginning in April 1968....
    • Big Comic Business
    • Big Comic Original
      Big Comic Original

      is a Japan seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan, aimed at male audiences, generally older teens and adults....
    • Big Comic Spirits
      Big Comic Spirits

      is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan, aimed at males 20-25 years old, and originally launched on October 14, 1980. The culture of food, sports, love relationships, and business provide the themes for its featured series, which often question conventional values....
    • Big Comic Special
    • Big Comic Superior
      Big Comic Superior

      is a semimonthly seinen List of manga magazines published since 1987-07-01 by Shogakukan in Japan. Its target audience is somewhere between the audience for Big Comic Original and Big Comic Spirits....
  • IKKI
    Ikki (magazine)

    Ikki is a monthly seinen manga magazine published by Shogakukan. It tends to specialize in underground or alternative manga, but has had its share of major hits as well....
  • Monthly Sunday Gene-X
  • Weekly Young Sunday
    Weekly Young Sunday

    was a weekly manga List of manga magazines published by Shogakukan in Japan since the first issue dated 1987-04-10. It replaced Shonen Big Comic in Shogakukan's lineup of shonen titles, and many of the titles in Shonen Big Comic were continued in Young Sunday....


Female oriented manga magazines

Shojo
Shojo

The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10 and 18. The name Romanization of Japanese the Japanese language wikt:?? , literally "young girl"....
 manga magazines
  • Betsucomi
    Betsucomi

    , formerly known as Bessatsu Shojo Comic, is a monthly Japan shojo manga magazine published by Shogakukan, originally aimed at young girls, but increasingly marketed to older teens and young women....
  • Cheese!
    Cheese!

    Cheese! is a monthly Japanese shojo manga magazine under the publication of Shogakukan. In their official website the also refer to themselves as Monthly Cheese!....
  • ChuChu
    Chuchu (magazine)

    ChuChu is a Japanese shojo manga magazine published by Shogakukan for early teen girls . ChuChu became a monthly published shojo manga magazine as a separation from Ciao in December 2005....
  • Ciao
    Ciao (magazine)

    is a Japanese shojo manga magazine published by Shogakukan for young girls . The first issue was launched in 1977. As of 2007, the circulation was 982,834....
  • Pochette
  • Shojo Comic
    Shojo Comic

    is a shojo manga List of manga magazines published twice monthly in Japan by Shogakukan since 1968. It was originally published weekly and it continued to be published weekly until the 1980s....


Josei manga magazines
  • flowers
  • Judy
  • Petit Comic
    Petit Comic

    Petit Comic is a Japan josei manga magazine published by Shogakukan, aimed at young women over the age of 18. Many series in this anthology magazine are romance-oriented and some are well-known for featuring frank depiction of sexual situations....


Fashion magazines

  • CanCam
    CanCam

    is a Japanese fashion magazine published by Shogakukan. Its name derives from "I Can Campus", because girls who read it are expected to become "campus leaders"....


List of manga published by Shogakukan

  • 7 Seeds
    7 Seeds

    is an ongoing science fiction manga series by Yumi Tamura. It has been published by Shogakukan since 2001, first in Betsucomi then in Flowers , and collected in 14 tankobon as of January 2009....
  • Bakuso Kyodai Let's & Go!!
  • Detective Conan
  • Doraemon
    Doraemon

    is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio which later became an anime series and Asian Media franchise. The series is about a Robot named Doraemon, who time travel from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, ....
  • Esper Mami
    Esper Mami

    is a manga created by Fujiko Fujio in 1977 and serialized in Shonen Big Comic. It was later adapted into an anime series....
  • H3 School! (Happy Hustle High
    Happy Hustle High

    , is a manga series by Rie Takada. The series is published in Japan by Shogakukan and in the United States in English by VIZ Media....
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  • In the Bathroom
  • Law of Ueki
  • Law of Ueki Plus
  • Kare First Love
    Kare First Love

    is a ten volume manga series by Kaho Miyasaka. It first premiered in the March 2002 issue of Shojo Comic, with new chapters continuing until August 2004....
  • Kekkaishi
    Kekkaishi

    is a manga series by Yellow Tanabe. It is published in Japan by Shogakukan and in North America in English by Viz Media. It was adapted as a 52-episode anime series by Sunrise broadcast between October 2006 and February 2008....
  • Kikaider
  • Kiteretsu Daihyakka
    Kiteretsu Daihyakka

    is a science fiction manga series by Fujiko Fujio which ran in the children's magazine Chagurin from April 1974 through July 1977. The manga was later made into a 331-episode TV anime series which ran on Fuji TV from March 27, 1988 through June 9, 1996....
  • Konjiki no Gash Bell! (Zatch Bell!
    Zatch Bell!

    Zatch Bell!, known in Japan as Konjiki no Gash!! and , is a shonen manga series by Makoto Raiku published in Shogakukan's Shonen Sunday, which has been adapted as an anime TV series by Toei Animation....
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  • Maison Ikkoku
    Maison Ikkoku

    is a Japanese seinen manga written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in the List of manga magazines Big Comic Spirits from 1980 through 1987....
  • MÄR
    MÄR

    , which stands for "M?rchen Awakens Romance", is a manga series created by mangaka Nobuyuki Anzai. The television anime based on the series is titled and was originally broadcast in Japan on the TXN station....
  • Midori no Hibi (Midori Days
    Midori Days

    is a shonen manga fantasy manga by Kazurou Inoue. It was published by Shogakukan in the magazine Shonen Sunday from September 2002 until October 2004 and collected in 8 tankobon volumes....
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  • Mobile Police Patlabor
    Patlabor

    Patlabor refers to , a manga franchise created by Headgear , a group consisting of director Mamoru Oshii, writer Kazunori Ito, mecha designer Yutaka Izubuchi, character designer Akemi Takada, and manga artist Masami Yuki....
  • Monster
    Monster (manga)

    is a seinen manga written and illustrated by Naoki Urasawa, published by Shogakukan in Big Comic Original between 1994 and 2001, and reprinted in 18 tankobon volumes....
  • O~i! Ryoma
    O~i! Ryoma

    is a Japanese shonen manga written by Tetsuya Takeda and illustrated by Yu Koyama. It is a comical and serious account mixing history and fiction of the life of the Bakumatsu period leader Sakamoto Ryoma....
  • Pluto (manga)
    Pluto (manga)

    is a manga series by Naoki Urasawa published in Shogakukan's Big Comic Original since 2003. It has been licensed for release in English by Viz Media, under the name Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka....
  • Pocket Monsters
    • Pocket Monster
      Pokémon Pocket Monster

      Pok?mon Pocket Monsters, known in Japan as , was one of the first Pok?mon manga to come out in Japan and ran for 14 volumes. In Singapore it is published by Chuang Yi in English language....
    • Pocket Monsters SPECIAL (Pokémon Adventures
      Pokémon Adventures

      Pok?mon Adventures, released in Japan as , is a Pok?mon-related manga based on the video games. Satoshi Tajiri once stated that the Pocket Monsters Special series is closest to what he imagined the Pok?mon world to be: ...
      )
    • Den-Geki! Pikachu (Pokémon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu)
    • Pocket Monsters PiPiPi ? Adventures (Magical Pokémon Journey
      Magical Pokémon Journey

      Magical Pok?mon Journey, known in Japan as , is a shojo manga series set in the fictional universe of the Pok?mon franchise. The manga is by Yumi Tsukirino and serialized by Shogakukan in the manga magazine Ciao collected in ten tankobon....
      )
    • Pokémon Fushigi no Danjon Ginji no Kyujotai (Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team
      Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team

      Pok?mon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team is a 6-part manga serial that first appeared in Japan CoroCoro in the fall of 2005. Its English translation was released in Nintendo Power magazine from the September 2006 issue to the February 2007 issue, presented in the same right-to-left format....
      )
  • Prefectural Earth Defense Force
    Prefectural Earth Defense Force

    is a manga series by Koichiro Yasunaga which ran in Shonen Sunday Super beginning in 1983. The manga was written as a parody gag manga inspired by the tokusatsu series Ultra Seven....
  • RahXephon
    RahXephon

    is a Japanese anime series about 17-year-old Ayato Kamina, his ability to control a godlike mecha known as the RahXephon, and his inner journey to find a place in the world around him....
  • Ranma ˝
    Ranma ˝

    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi with an anime adaptation. The story revolves around a 16-year old boy named Ranma Saotome who was trained from early childhood in martial arts....
  • Rekka no Hono (Flame of Recca
    Flame of Recca

    is a manga series by Nobuyuki Anzai, which was adapted into an anime series spanning forty-two episodes by Studio Pierrot. The manga was originally serialized in Shonen Sunday starting October 18, 1995, with the last chapter published April 18, 2002, and has been compiled into 33 tankobon volumes by Shogakukan....
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  • Revolutionary Girl Utena
    Revolutionary Girl Utena

    is a manga by Chiho Saito and anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara. The manga serial began in the June 1996 issue of Ciao and the anime was first broadcast in 1997....
  • Rockman EXE (MegaMan NT Warrior
    MegaMan NT Warrior

    MegaMan NT Warrior, known as in the original Japanese language version, is a Japanese people Anime and Manga series based on the Mega Man Battle Network series video game series....
    )
  • Saikano
    Saikano

    Saikano, known in Japan as is a manga, anime, and OVA series by Shin Takahashi, creator of Iihito and Kimi no Kakera. Saikano was originally serialized in Shogakukan's Big Comic Spirits magazine....
  • Selfish Fairy Mirumo de Pon (Mirmo Zibang!)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog
    Sonic the Hedgehog (manga)

    There are several Sonic the Hedgehog manga series....
  • Sora wa Akai Kawa no Hotori (Red River
    Red River (manga)

    , also known as Anatolia Story, is a historical fiction shojo manga series made by Chie Shinohara. It is published in Japan by Shogakukan in Sho-Comi and collected in 28 volumes....
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  • SP: Security Police
  • Spriggan
    Spriggan (manga)

    is a manga series created by Hiroshi Takashige and Ryoji Minagawa during the early 1990s. It was initially released as Striker in the North American English translation, as it is the English translation of the word Spriggan from Celtic....
  • Super Mario-Kun
  • The Saga of Darren Shan
    The Saga of Darren Shan

    The Saga of Darren Shan is a young adult 12 book series written by Darren Shan about the struggle of a boy who has become involved in the world of vampires....
  • Togari
    Togari

    Togari can refer to:* Togari * Togari * Places:** Togari ** Togari ...
  • Urusei Yatsura
    Urusei Yatsura

    is a well-known late 1970s to 1990s manga and anime series created by Rumiko Takahashi. The show is also known as Lum/Lamu, the Invader Girl, and, Those Obnoxious Aliens....
  • Yaiba
    Yaiba

    Yaiba, also known as , is a shonen manga series by Gosho Aoyama. It ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday from issue 39 of 1988 to issue 50 of 1993, collected in 24 tankobon volumes....
  • Yakitate!! Japan
    Yakitate!! Japan

    is a manga, authored by Takashi Hashiguchi, serialized in Shogakukan's Shonen Sunday, which has been adapted into a television anime series by Sunrise ....


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