Kabushiki Kaisha Shinchōsha is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in , Shinjuku, Tokyo.[" 会社情報." Shinchosha. Retrieved on June 17, 2011. "〒162-8711 東京都新宿区矢来町71"] Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award.
Books
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Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Uten Enten (1990), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997), After the quake (2000), 1Q84 (2009–2010), The City and Its Uncertain Walls (2023)
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Alex Kerr: Lost Japan (1993)
Book series
Magazines
Weekly
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週刊新潮 – since 1956
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週刊コミックバンチ – manga, discontinued in 2010
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Focus – suspended
Monthly
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新潮 – Literary magazine since 1904
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「月刊」シリーズ
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波
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nicola
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新潮45 (suspended)
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芸術新潮
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小説新潮
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旅
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ENGINE – Automobile magazine, since 2000
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Foresight – Japanese edition discontinued in 2010
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月刊コミックバンチ - manga, since 2011
Web magazine
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Foresight – Japanese edition since 2010
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Daily Shinchō – comprehensive news site basically excerpting from Shukan Shincho since 2015
Seasonal
Grave of the Fireflies
In 1967, Shinchosha published a short story
Grave of the Fireflies by
Akiyuki Nosaka. 21 years later,
Grave of the Fireflies was turned into a film by director
Isao Takahata, animated by
Studio Ghibli and co-distributed by
Bandai Visual under their Emotion label and
Toho. In turn, Shinchosha produced that film as
Shinchosha 1988. The film was released in Japanese theaters on April 16, 1988. It was then licensed and released in
North America as a subtitled
VHS by Central Park Media on June 2, 1993,
and later a 2-disc
DVD by the same company in the same region, with the 1st disc featuring an English dub produced by Skypilot Entertainment and the original Japanese with English subtitles. The 2nd disc contained a retrospective on the author of the original book, an interview with the director, and an interview with critic
Roger Ebert, who had expressed his admiration for the film on several occasions and ranked the film as one of the greatest of all time. Following the April 27, 2009, bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media, ADV Films acquired the North American rights and re-released it on DVD on July 7, 2009, followed by former CPM titles such as
MD Geist,
Now and Then, Here and There and
The World of Narue.
Following the September 1, 2009, shutdown and rebranding of ADV Films,
their successor,
Sentai Filmworks, rescued the film and re-released it as a remastered DVD on March 6, 2012, and plan on releasing the film on digital outlets.
A
Blu-ray edition was released on November 20, 2012, featuring an all-new English dub produced by
Seraphim Digital.
released a Blu-ray in the
United Kingdom on July 1, 2013, followed by a
Kiki's Delivery Service release on that same format.
with Madman Entertainment releasing the film in
Australia and
New Zealand.
Grave of the Fireflies is the first Studio Ghibli film that Disney never had distribution rights to in North America, since the film was not produced by then-parent company Tokuma Shoten (Disney formerly handled the North American distribution of all Tokuma Shoten-produced Studio Ghibli films before GKids picked up the distribution rights.) but by Shinchosha, the publisher of the original short story (as mentioned; although Disney has the Asian (including Japanese, China and Taiwan) distribution rights themselves).
Shincho 45 suspension
In 2016, after an editorial change, the monthly magazine
Shincho 45 increased its publication of polemical articles from authors who usually wrote for publications offering a
right-wing perspective.
In 2018 Shinchosha suspended publication of
Shincho 45 after several articles critical of LGBT members of society appeared in the magazine, including an article by
Mio Sugita in the August 2018 issue calling LGBT couples "unproductive."
Shinchosha president Takanobu Sato particularly criticized a series of essays in the October 2018 issue that defended Sugita's article, calling the series "expressions full of prejudice that lacked appropriate recognition and deviated from common sense."
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