Bungeishunjū
| Founded | 1923 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Kan Kikuchi |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Headquarters location | Chiyoda, Tokyo |
| Key people | Tōru Ueno, president |
| Publication types | magazines and other publications |
| Number of employees | 366 (July 2009)[1] |
| Official website |
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Bungeishunjū Ltd. (株式会社文藝春秋 Kabushiki-gaisha Bungeishunjū), established in 1923, is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine Bungeishunjū. 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 grants the annual Bungeishunjū 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 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
The magazines published by Bungeishunjū include:
- Bungeishunjū (文藝春秋) (published monthly)
- All Yomimono (オール讀物 Ōru Yomimono) (published monthly)
- Shūkan Bunshun (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 (ナンバー)
Company history
Bungeishunjū 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]
Marco Polo Holocaust denial article
In February 1995 a Japanese magazine named Marco Polo, 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."[2]
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.[3]
Contributors and editors
- Masahiko Katsuya (勝谷誠彦)
- Takashi Tachibana (立花隆)
References
- 1 2 3 Bungeishunjū company profile and history Retrieved on 2 October 2009. (Japanese)
- ↑ Masanori Nishioka, "The Greatest Taboo of Postwar World History: There Were No Nazi 'Gas Chambers'", Marco Polo, February 1995].
- ↑ "The IHR Denounces Campaign Against Japanese Publishing Company". The Journal of Historical Review, March/April 1995 (Vol. 15, No. 2), page 9.
External links
- Official site (Japanese)