is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine Bungeishunjū. Founded by Kan Kikuchi in 1923, the company is headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.
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 granted (from 1955 to 2001) the annual Bungeishunjū Manga Award for achievement in the manga and illustration fields.
The company publishes , the weekly , and the sports magazine Number, which represent public opinion of literary, political, and sport-journalistic culture, respectively. The , 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.
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.Bungeishunjū company profile and history Retrieved on 2 October 2009.
In February 1995 the magazine , a 250,000-circulation monthly published by Bungeishunjū, 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."
The Los Angeles–based Simon Wiesenthal Center instigated a boycott of Bungeishunjū advertisers, including Volkswagen, Mitsubishi, and Cartier. Within days, Bungeishunjū shut down Marco Polo and its editor, Kazuyoshi Hanada, quit, as did the president of Bungeishunjū, Kengo Tanaka.
List of magazines The magazines published by Bungeishunjū include: (published monthly) (published monthly) (published weekly) (monthly literary issue) (women's quality) (op-ed magazine)
Book series The book series published by Bungeishunjū include: Bunshun Bunko – a "series of literary works"Arase Yukata, "Bungei Sunju, Ltd", in: Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Tokyo and New York, NY: Kodansha, 1983, vol. 1, p. 210.
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