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 Headquarters inChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan | |
Native name | 株式会社 小学館 |
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Romanized name | Kabushiki-gaisha Shōgakukan |
| Company type | PrivateKK |
| Industry | Publishing |
| Founded | August 8, 1922; 102 years ago (1922-08-08) |
| Founder | Takeo Ōga |
| Headquarters | , Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Nobuhiro Oga [jp][1] (President andCEO) |
| Products | Magazines,comics,picture books,light novels, educational books, reference books, otherbooks |
| Revenue | 108,471,000,000 yen (2023)  |
| Owner | Hitotsubashi Group (Ōga family) |
Number of employees | 728 (2017) |
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| Website | www |
Shogakukan Inc. (株式会社小学館,Kabushiki-gaisha Shōgakukan, often pronounced asShōgakkan[2] due todevoicing[3]) is a Japanese publisher ofcomics,magazines,light novels,dictionaries,literature,non-fiction,home media, and other media in Japan.[4]
Shogakukan foundedShueisha, which also foundedHakusensha. These are three separate companies, but are together called theHitotsubashi Group,[5] one of the largest publishing groups in Japan and the world. Shogakukan is headquartered in the Shogakukan Building inHitotsubashi, part ofKanda,Chiyoda, Tokyo, near theJimbocho book district. The corporation also has the other two companies located in the sameward.
Shogakukan, along withShueisha, ownsViz Media,[6] which publishes manga from both companies in theUnited States.
Shogakukan's licensing arm in North America wasShoPro Entertainment; it was merged into Viz Media in 2005.[7]
Shogakukan's production arm isShogakukan-Shueisha Productions (previously Shogakukan Productions Co., Ltd.)
In March 2010 it was announced that Shogakukan would partner with the American comics publisherFantagraphics to issue a line of manga to be edited byRachel Thorn.[8]
InEurope, manga from Shōgakukan andShūeisha are published by local publishers such asPika Édition,Ki-oon,Kana andKazé for the French market, and Kazé,Carlsen,Egmont andTokyopop for the German market. Shogakukan, Shueisha and ShoPro have established a joint venture namedViz Media Europe.[9] Viz Media Europe bought in 2009 the French Kazé Group whose activities are mainly publishing manga and home video for the French and German market.[10]
The company has a wholly-owned subsidiary,Shogakukan Asia, with headquarter inSingapore. Besides producing popular titles in English such asDetective Conan,Pokémon andFuture Card Buddyfight, the company also partners with local creators such asJohnny Lau to publish comic series for distribution in Southeast Asia.[11]
Shogakukan has awards for amateurmanga artists who want to become professional. It allows people to either send in theirmanga by mail or bring it in to aneditor.[citation needed]
On February 15, 2018,CoroCoro Comic ("Gekkan Corocoro Comic"), a children's magazine published by Shogakukan, had in its March issue a cartoon making fun ofGenghis Khan, founder of theMongol Empire. The comic showed a mischievous boy doodling juvenile things on pictures of famous people, such as a dog's face on a picture ofAlbert Einstein.[12] Genghis Khan was depicted with a crude rendering of male genitalia on his forehead.[13][14] After some backlash, Shogakukan initially offered an apology addressed to the Mongolian Embassy in Tokyo on February 23, but that failed to mollify Mongolian expats in Japan, who regard Genghis Khan as a national hero.[13]
On February 26, Mongolians and citizens ofChina'sInner Mongoliaautonomous region resident in Japan sent a formal letter of protest to Shogakukan, while some 90 demonstrators protested in front of company headquarters.[13] Major bookselling chainsKinokuniya, Miraiya and Kumazawa pulled the publication off shelves after the Mongolian Embassy in Tokyo filed an official complaint with theMinistry of Foreign Affairs.[12] In March 2018, Shogakukan issued another public apology, announced a national recall of the magazine and offered a refund to magazine patrons.[15] CoroCoro Comic's website also published an apology by Asumi Yoshino, author of the serialized mangaYarisugi!!! Itazura-kun which contained the controversial image.[16]
Shogakukan produces (or makes part of the production of) anime based on their manga, mostly through their subsidiaryShogakukan-Shueisha Productions.
Tentōmusi Comics (Japanese:てんとう虫コミックス【てんとうむしコミックス】,Hepburn:Tentōmushi Komikkusu), abbreviatedTC, is theimprint used fortankōbon editions of manga series serialized inMonthly CoroCoro Comic andBessatsu CoroCoro Comic magazines.[18]
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