is a

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founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in Yaraichō,

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. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award.

Books

* 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) * Alex Kerr: '' Lost Japan'' (1993)

Book series

Magazines

Weekly

* – since 1956 * –

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, discontinued in 2010 * '' Focus'' – suspended

Monthly

* –

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since 1904 * * * '' nicola'' * (suspended) * * * * ''

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'' –

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, since 2000 * '' Foresight'' – Japanese edition discontinued in 2010 * - manga, since 2011

Web magazine

* '' Foresight'' – Japanese edition since 2010 * ''Daily Shinchō'' – comprehensive news site basically excerpting from ''

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'' since 2015

Seasonal

''Grave of the Fireflies''

In 1967, Shinchosha published a short story '' Grave of the Fireflies'' by

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. 21 years later, ''Grave of the Fireflies'' was turned into a film by director

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, animated by

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and co-distributed by Bandai Visual under their Emotion label and

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. 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

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, 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'', ''

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'' 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

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edition was released on November 20, 2012, featuring an all-new English dub produced by

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. StudioCanal released a Blu-ray in the

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on July 1, 2013, followed by a ''

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'' release on that same format. with

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releasing the film in Australia and

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. ''Grave of the Fireflies'' is the first Studio Ghibli film that

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never had distribution rights to in North America, since the film was not produced by then-parent company

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(Disney formerly handled the North American distribution of all Tokuma Shoten-produced Studio Ghibli films before

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picked up the distribution rights.) but by Shinchosha, the publisher of the original short story (as mentioned; although

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 Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics, autho ...

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 Mio Sugita (杉田水脈 ''Sugita Mio'', born April 22, 1967) is a Japanese politician. She is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and incumbent member of the House of Representatives for the Proportional Chugoku Block. Sugita h ...

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."

References

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