Shūkan Gendai

Shūkan Gendai (週刊現代, Modern Weekly) is a general-interest weekly magazine published by Kodansha, the largest publishing house in Japan, which covers entertainment news as well as hard news such as interviews with the Prime Minister of Japan and other VIPs in the political and financial world. It also contains essays and opinions by well-known authors in serial form. In its the photo section, it runs news photos in both black & white and in color.

The magazine has a circulation of around 500,000 and competes primarily with three other weekly magazines: Shūkan Bunshun, Shūkan Shincho and Shūkan Post.

Although the magazine is aimed primarily for businessmen in their 40s ~ 60s, recently the female readership is increasing, showing that 30% of the readership is now female as opposed to 10% in the past.

As far as the editorial stance is concerned about nuclear power, Shūkan Gendai is well known for its anti-nuclear power stance including opposing the restarting nuclear power stations.

List of manga

• Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi, by Kimio Yanagisawa

External links

• Template:Ja icon Shukan Gendai Online
• Sports Illustrated article about the Romanian gymnast controversy