is a Japanese

publisher Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

of mostly

non-fiction Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or content (media), media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real life, real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to pre ...

magazines A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...

and books, though it has recently begun publishing

light novel A is a type of Genre fiction, popular literature novel from Japan usually classified as young adult fiction, generally targeting Adolescence, teens to Young adult, twenties or older. The definition is very vague, and wide-ranging. The abbr ...

s and

manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics ...

, including magazines which contain both. Shodensha publishes magazines such as '' Feel Young'' (a josei all-

magazine), ''

Zipper A zipper (N. America), zip, zip fastener (UK), formerly known as a clasp locker, is a commonly used device for binding together two edges of textile, fabric or other flexible material. Used in clothing (e.g. jackets and jeans), luggage and oth ...

'' (a fashion magazine aimed at high school and college girls and women, known for including manga), and '' Nina's'' (a fashion and

lifestyle Lifestyle is the interests, opinions, behaviours, and behavioural orientations of an individual, group, or culture. The term "style of life" () was introduced by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in his 1929 book, ''The Case of Miss R.'', w ...

magazine aimed at younger

housewives A housewife (also known as a homemaker or a stay-at-home mother/mom/mum) is a woman whose role is running or managing her family's home—housekeeping, which may include Parenting, caring for her children; cleaning and maintaining the home; Sew ...

). Shodensha is a member of the

keiretsu A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings that dominated the Japanese economy in the second half of the 20th century. In the legal sense, it is a type of business group that is in a loosely organized al ...

Hitotsubashi Group The is a Japanese family-owned publishing vertical keiretsu in Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is composed of Shogakukan, Shueisha, Hakusensha and related publishing companies. The name of the group is derived from the location of its majo ...

of publishing companies.

History

Shodensha was founded on November 5, 1970, by five people: Shōzō Sasabe (from

Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of comics, magazines, light novels, dictionaries, literature, non-fiction, home media, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but ...

), Isamu Kurosaki (from

Kobunsha is a Japanese publishing company. It publishes literature, manga novels, and women's magazines. Company history Kobunsha was established on October 1, 1945, and belongs to the Kodansha group. The company has published Japanese authors such a ...

), Kōzaburō Iga, Hidenori Sakurai, and Toshio Fujioka. The company was able to release a number of best selling titles which helped the company get off to a running start. They began their "Non-Novel" imprint in 1973, and their "Non-Pochette" imprint in 1975. In 2000, Shodensha created their Shodensha Gold imprint, and their most recent imprint, Shodensha Shinsho, was released in 2005. Shodensha has also published a variety of magazines throughout the years, including (a magazine which covers a wide range of women's issues, first published in 1996), ''Boon'' (a young street fashion magazine published from 1986 to 2008), (began publication in 2004), as well as the previously mentioned ''Feel Young'', ''Zipper'', and ''Nina's''.

Magazines

*'' Feel Young'',

josei manga , also known as and its abbreviation , is an editorial category of Japanese comics that emerged in the 1980s. In a strict sense, ''josei'' refers to manga marketed to an audience of adult women, contrasting ''shōjo'' manga, which is marke ...

magazine. *'' Karada ni Ii Koto'', a lifestyle and health magazine aimed at women in their 30s and older. *'' Nina's'', a women's lifestyle and fashion magazine. *'' Shosetsu Non'', a magazine which serializes

s. *', a young women's fashion magazine. *'' Boon'', young men's fashion magazine. *''Feel Love'', josei romance novels magazine. **''Coffret'', web magazine where all ''Feel Love'' serializations were moved after August 2014 *''On BLUE'', a manga magazine

External links

Official Shodensha website
{{Authority control Hitotsubashi Group Book publishing companies of Japan Comic book publishing companies of Japan Publishing companies established in 1970 Educational book publishing companies Magazine publishing companies of Japan 1970 establishments in Japan Chiyoda, Tokyo