Shueisha

Shueisha (集英社 Shūeisha) is a major publisher in Japan. Shueisha's Jump Comics division is a large publisher of manga. Shueisha is headquartered in Tokyo. The company was founded in 1925 as the entertainment-related publishing division of Japanese publisher Shogakukan. The following year Shueisha became a separate, independent company.

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Shueisha later founded Hakushensha, which has gone on to become another of Japan's most successful publishers.

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Shueisha publishes the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and organizes the Tezuka Award in Japan.

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Its' Shonen Jump, begun in 1969, is the world's most popular and most successful Japanese manga magazine.

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Shueisha, along with Shogakukan, owns Viz Media, which publishes manga from both companies in the United States.

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Weekly Shonen Jump: Weekly Shonen Jump (週刊少年ジャンプ Shūkan Shōnen Janpu), with a circulation of over 3 million, is one of the longest-running, weekly manga compilations in Japan. Monthly editions are published in North America and Europe....