Shodensha

• Name — Shodensha Publishing Co., Ltd. • Native Name — 株式会社祥伝社 • Romanized Name — Kabushiki kaisha Shōdensha • Parent — Hitotsubashi Group • Hq Location — Jinbōchō • Hq Location City — Chiyoda, Tokyo • Hq Location Country — Japan • Key People — Kazuyoshi Takeuchi (president) • Products — Non-fiction, magazines, manga, fashion books and magazines, lifestyle • Type — Private • Website — https: www.shodensha.co.jp

Shodensha was founded on November 5, 1970, by five people: Shōzō Sasabe (from Shogakukan), Isamu Kurosaki (from Kobunsha), 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 Bishō (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), Karada ni Ii Koto (began publication in 2004), as well as the previously mentioned Feel Young, Zipper, and Nina's.

• Feel Young, josei manga 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 light novels. • Zipper (magazine), 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 yaoi manga magazine

The canonical record carries the following identifying particulars. Recorded from 1970. Institutional cataloguing adds that shodensha is associated with Japan.