Shūeisha

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Shūeisha

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legal form Kabushiki-gaisha
( joint stock company )
founding August 8, 1926 ( publishing company )
1947 ( limited partnership )
March 3, 1949 (stock corporation)
Seat 2-5-10, Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 101-8050, Japan
JapanJapan 
management Marue Horiuchi
堀 内 丸 恵( President , CEO )
Number of employees 743 (as of October 1, 2018)
(416 male, 327 female)
Branch publishing company
Website www.shueisha.co.jp

Shueisha Jimbocho building in Chiyoda , Tokyo 2006

Shūeisha ( Japanese 株式会社 集 英 社 Kabushiki-gaisha Shūeisha , English Shueisha Inc. ) is one of the major Japanese publishers. He is also one of the largest manga publishers in Japan. In addition to Shogakukan and Hakusensha , the publishing house belongs to the Keiretsu of the Hitotsubashi Group .

The main office of the publisher is in Tokyo . Shūeisha was founded in 1925 as "entertainment division" ( English entertainment division ) by Shōgakukan publishing house. In 1926, the department became an independent publishing company Shūeisha from the parent company Shōgakukan. In 1949 the company was finally converted into a stock corporation. In July 1968, the first issue of the manga magazine Shōnen Jump appeared , which later became the best-selling manga magazine in Japan. Shūeisha also publishes the Japanese edition of Playboy magazine.

The American publisher Viz Media , one of the largest manga publishers in America, is a subcontractor of Shūeisha and Shogakukan. In 2005, Tokyopop- Verlag was able to conclude a contract with Shūeisha, which enables Tokyopop to exclusively publish German editions of manga titles such as Death Note , Bleach , The Prince of Tennis and others.

Manga magazines

Other magazines

Jump Festa

For the first time in 1999 and annually from 2003 onwards, the publisher is the host of the in-house exhibition Jump Festa, at which anime studios and video game developers who implement the publisher's series in these media also present themselves.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Shūeisha Company Info - 集 英 社会 社 案 内. In: www.shueisha.co.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 (Japanese).
  2. a b c Shūeisha Company Profile. In: www.shueisha.co.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. a b Shūeisha Company Info - 集 英 社 2020 年度 定期 採用 情報. In: www.shueisha.co.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  4. Shūeisha's Short History - 集 英 社 小 史. In: www.shueisha.co.jp. Retrieved June 20, 2019 (Japanese).