Shūkan Gendai
Weekly Gendai (週刊現代) is a general-interest weekly magazine published by Kodansha, by far the largest publishing house in Japan, which covers entertainment news as well as hard news such as interviews with the Japanese Prime Minister and other VIPs in the political and financial world all over the world. It also contains essays and opinions by well-known authors in serial form. As for the photo section, it runs news photos in black & white and in color as well. The circulation is about 500,000, which competes with three other weekly magazines, Weekly Bunshun, Weekly Shincho and Weekly Post. Although this magazine is geared for businessmen in their 40s ~ 60s, but the resent trend is that the magazine enjoys more female readership, showing that 30% of the readership is now female as opposed to 10% in the past. You often see businessmen on the road reading this magazine on a bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka.
Until the huge earthquakes that occurred on March 11th, 2011, the magazine used a female personality for the cover, but since then, it has only used a cover with photos and letters. As far as the editorial stance is concerned about the nuclear power stations, this magazine is well known for its anti-nuclear power stance including restarting nuclear power stations.