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Founder Yoshiyuki Sato launched the literary magazine "New Voice"
I Founding
Founded Shincho and established Shinchosha Co., Ltd.
Founding of "Shinchosha Bunko"
Completion of the new building
Commenced publication of the 57-volume "World Literature Complete Works"
Commenced publication of the 16-volume "Japanese Small National Library"
II Foundation
Publication of "Shinchosha Bunko" (Fourth Series) begins
Founding of the monthly magazine "Shōsetsu Shincho" (September issue)
Founding of the monthly magazine "Geijutsu Shincho" (January issue)
Commenced publication of the 46-volume "Contemporary World Literature Complete Works"
Founding of "Shūkan Shincho" (February 19 issue)
Commenced publication of the 72-volume "Japanese Literature Complete Works"
Started publishing the special series "Pure Literature Book Release"
The new headquarters was completed, forming the current "Main Building"
Second generation Yoshio Sato (1900–1967) shaped the postwar publishing industry
Launched the PR magazine "Nami" (January issue) in 1953, evolving the irregular publication "Catalog" into a new launch (initially published four times a year).
Launched "Shincho Selection" – a popular series of educational books encompassing academia and literature with unique content. Numerous masterpieces and award-winning works were produced.
Published Sawa Yoshiko’s "Ecstatic Person"; sold over 1 million copies in four months, becoming the best-seller of the year.
Published Richard Bach’s "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" translated by Hiroyuki Gotō; sold over 1 million copies in three months, becoming the best-seller of the year.
Launched the first photo weekly "FOCUS" (October 30 issue) with the tagline "Reading the Times through Photography." It combined photography and columns, creating a new format for weekly magazines and ushering in the era of photo weeklies.
Launched "Shincho 45" (May issue). Renamed the 1982 general magazine "Shincho 45+" for middle-aged and older readers to "Shincho 45," creating a new non-fiction magazine focused on diaries and biographies. It produced a series of popular works.
Established the Yukio Mishima Award and the Shūgorō Yamamoto Award. The first Yukio Mishima Award went to Genichiro Takahashi for "Elegant and Sentimental Japanese Baseball," and the first Shūgorō Yamamoto Award went to Taichi Yamada for "Summer with the Others."
Established the Japan Mystery Suspense Award (～1994). The first award winner was Nominami Asa for "Happy Breakfast", the second award winner was Miyabe Miyuki for "The Magic Whisper", and the third award winner was Takamura Kaoru for "Fly Embracing Gold". Large newcomers followed.
Established the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. The first award winner was Sakami Kenichi for "The Palace Novel", and the Excellence Award winner was Yamaguchi Izumi for "The Universe's Original Waterfall".
Founded the international political and economic magazine "Foresight" (March issue). It was the first annual subscription by Shinchosha and a direct mail subscription monthly magazine. It attracted attention as a quality magazine for reading the turbulent world after the end of the Cold War.
Founded the comprehensive graphic monthly magazine "SINRA" (January issue). It is a nature magazine covering everything related to nature. The special feature of the first issue was "Nature is Our Workplace." The beautiful pages featuring top photographers were highly praised.
The Gokasa Logistics Center was completed and fully operational from 1995. It unified the distribution operations (receiving, shipping, storage, returns, refurbishment, etc.) that had been scattered across five locations into a single logistics base, completed in March of this year and fully operational from January 1995.
100th anniversary. Takashi Sato became president. Former president Ryoichi Sato became chairman. Published "Shinchosha 100-Year Catalog of Books" and held a commemorative celebration party in November.
"nicola" became a monthly magazine (April issue). It was launched in 1997 as a fashion magazine for elementary and junior high school students. After becoming bi-monthly, it switched to monthly from this year. It became popular as a magazine covering the overall lifestyle of junior high students.
Founded "ENGINE" (October issue). It was launched as a monthly automobile magazine. It attracted fans as a lifestyle magazine that also covered fashion and watches.
Founded "Weekly Comic Band" (May 29 issue). It was launched as a weekly seinen manga magazine as Shinchosha's first attempt at a manga magazine. It ceased publication in 2010, and the comic venture restarted as a monthly magazine.
Founded "Shinchosha New Books". Masashi Yoro's "Wall of Idiots" became a bestseller. Although it was said to be the last launch of the new book boom, the 10-book lineup dominated bookstore rankings, and Masashi Yoro's "Wall of Idiots" sold over 4 million copies.
Published Masahiko Fujiwara's "The State's Dignity".
Masahiko Fujiwara's "The State's Dignity" attracted attention in newspaper ads and became a bestseller with over 2.5 million copies.
Published Haruki Murakami's "1Q84".
Founded "Monthly Comic @ Band".
100th Anniversary of "Shinchosha Bunko"
Founding of "Shinchosha NEX"
Opened "la kagū".
Published Haruki Murakami's "The Knight Commander Killer".
Published Miko Brady's "I Am Yellow and White, and a Little Blue".
Published Fuyumi Ono's "Silver Ruins, Moon of the Dark".
Celebrated the 125th anniversary.
Shinchosha has terminated the "New Book Notification Email" feature as a preventive measure to protect the safety of information and services, effective October 21, 2026. Registered email addresses will be appropriately deleted. Email newsletters will continue to be distributed.
A new translation of Michel Foucault's work 'The Birth of the Prison—Surveillance and Punishment' has been published. The book introduces Foucault's view of power, showing how the mechanisms of surveillance and correction in prisons are applied to various social institutions, and how people are shaped into convenient subjects for power. The new translation aims to be readable while not oversimplifying the content.
Art Shincho will give away tickets to the Yumeji Takehiku "Creator of the Era" exhibition, currently on display at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, to 50 people (5 groups of 10) in its November 2026 issue. The exhibition is a large-scale retrospective of Yumeji Takehiku, following the 140th birth anniversary YUMEJI exhibition held in 2024.
Art Shincho will present tickets to the Edo-Tokyo Museum Renewal Commemorative Special Exhibition "Enzan Okyō: Beyond Reality, Spatial Revolution" as this month's present in the November 2026 issue. The exhibition will introduce Enzan Okyō's representative works in the first and second half of the year, and also present a recreated image of the Peacock Hall.
In commemoration of the release of Mr. Moekara's new book "Don't Tell Anyone Else", an original sticker is included as a purchase bonus. This special bonus uses illustrations from the serialized works of Yutaka Ohashi, and will be distributed at designated bookstores from Hokkaido to Tokyo. Distribution will end once stock runs out.
We will host a talk event featuring Akutagawa Prize writer Hatakeyama Ushio, themed "Literature and Sports." The event will take place on Saturday, October 24, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the front of the Bunchukan Bookstore Green Plaza store in Midori-ku. The participation fee is 500 yen (tax included) and includes one drink.
A talk event will be held to mark the publication of Masahiko Kishi's short story collection Lillian and Masahiko Katsuse's latest novel, How to Get Over a Melancholy Love. This will be the fourth installment of the event, which has been well received in the past, and a book-signing session is also planned.
In commemoration of the publication of Megumi Semiyama's Shinchosha Bunko edition of 'The Fan of the Ten Thousand-Yen Actor', a reading session will be held at the Edo-Tokyo Museum on November 21, 2026. We are recruiting 20 participants, and the application deadline is November 12 at 23:59. Participation requires purchasing a ticket for the permanent exhibition and buying the book in advance to bring on the day.
New editions of Chiyo Uno's best-known works, Ohan, Iro Zange, and Akutoku mo Mata, have been published. The feature introduces her life, which inspired an NHK morning drama, and her writing. Iro Zange portrays love in the early Showa era, while Akutoku mo Mata is a memoir recounting turning points in her life.
In its October 2026 issue of Geijutsu Shincho, Shinchosha Co., Ltd. announced a giveaway of two pairs of tickets to an exhibition featuring Moto Hagio, Ryoko Yamagishi, and Wakaki Yamato.