Shogakukan

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Shogakukan

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legal form Kabushiki-gaisha
( joint stock company )
founding August 8, 1922
Seat 2-3-1, Hitotsubashi,
Chiyoda -ku,
Tokyo 101-8001, Japan
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management Masahiro Ōga
相 賀 昌宏
Number of employees 708 (as of March 2019)
sales 97 billion yen (as of 2017)
Branch publishing company
Website www.shogakukan.co.jp

Shogakukan's corporate headquarters in Chiyoda , Tokyo 2016

Shōgakukan ( Japanese 株式会社小学 館 Kabushiki-gaisha Shōgakukan , English Shogakukan Inc. ) is a Japanese publisher that is known outside of Japan for its wide range of manga . In addition, the company, which was founded in 1922 as a publisher of teaching materials, publishes magazines, picture books, encyclopedias and novels and has sales of almost 100 billion yen (as of 2017) . Together with Shueisha and Hakusensha, he belongs to the Keiretsu of the Hitotsubashi Group . The publisher has awarded the Shogakukan Manga Prize to manga artists every year since 1955 .

history

The publishing house was founded on August 8, 1922 by Takeo Ōga ( 相 賀 武夫 ) originally as a distributor of teaching magazines for elementary school students in the fifth and sixth grades. In 1926 Shōgakukan founded the Shūeisha publishing house, which in turn became the Hakusensha publishing house.

After the Second World War , the publishing house was re-established and reissued learning materials. Later also fiction appeared, especially collections of world literature, for school children as well as mangas. The publisher's first manga magazine was Shōnen Sunday , which has been published weekly since 1959. In 1962 Shogakukan began to publish encyclopedias and dictionaries, especially in illustrated form. This was followed by the launch of magazines for the adult audience.

Together with Shūeisha, Shōgakukan established the Viz Media publishing house in the United States . Masahiro Ōga ( 相 賀 昌宏 ), the founder's grandson, is currently in charge of the publishing house. In August 2009, Shōgakukan and Shūeisha acquired the Swiss company Anime Virtual and the French distribution company Kazé .

Publishing program

The publisher still publishes school books these days, but children's books, fiction, illustrated books, atlases, encyclopedias, encyclopedias, dictionaries, guides, mangas and a variety of manga magazines and magazines for the general public are also part of the program. Many of the magazines and books are also published online and as e-books. The company also participates in the production of adaptations of their published works, in the licensing of merchandising and

Manga

The publisher has been publishing various weekly and monthly manga magazines since 1959. Some of the series published in it are later published in paperback books. In addition, Shogakukan operates the online manga portal MangaOne and the online magazine Ura Sunday .

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Magazines

Many of the magazines are also published online.

Teaching and learning magazines
  • Baby Book, since 1968
  • Mebae, since 1958
  • Nyugaku Junbi - Gakushu Yochien, since 1982
  • Ohisama, since 1995
  • Pucchigumi, since 2006
  • Shin Yoji to Hoiku, since 2011
  • Sho 1-6 Kyoiku Gijitsu, since 1927
  • Shogaku 1 Nensei, since 1925
  • Sogo Kyoiku Gijitsu, since 1946
  • Terumi (Braille picture magazine), since 1983
  • TV Kun, since 1976
  • Yochien, since 1931
Others
  • Be-Pal, since 1981
  • Biteki, since 2001
  • CanCam, since 1981
  • Dime, since 1986
  • Domani, since 1996
  • Josei Seven , since 1963
  • Men's Precious, since 2010
  • Oggi, since 1992
  • Precious, since 2004
  • Sapio, since 1989
  • Serai, since 1989
  • Waraku, since 2001
  • Weekly Post, since 1969

subsidiary company

  • Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions
  • Showatosho
  • Shogakukan Publishing Service
  • Suuri-Keikaku
  • Shodensha Publishing
  • Shorinsha
  • Showa Bright
  • Shogakukan Creative
  • NetAdvance
  • Shogakukan Media Promotion
  • Shogakukan Square
  • Shogakukan image
  • Shogakukan Naning
  • Engekishuppan
  • Kudan Pulse
  • Shogakukan Real Estate Developement
  • Viz Media
  • Shogakukan Asia
  • Shogakukan Taiwan

Source: Shogakukan Company Profile

Web links

Commons : Shogakukan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Company Profile. In: www.shogakukan.co.jp. Accessed July 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f 会 社 情報 - Company Profile. In: www.shogakukan.co.jp. Retrieved July 10, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ 沿革 ・ 歴 史 - History, development. In: www.shogakukan.co.jp. Retrieved July 10, 2019 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ VIZ Media Switzerland SA: Anime Virtual was taken over by Shogakukan-Shueisha-ShoPro - press release at Anime Virtual ( Memento from January 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: www.anime-virtual.de, accessed July 10, 2019.