Kodansha
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New Steve Jobs Biography Manga Starts
Mari Yamazaki’s new manga series, comicalization of Walter Isacson’s Steve Jobs biography “Steve Jobs”, began today on Kodansha Kiss Magazine. (Please check my Japan Times …
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Weekly Comics Shonen Jump Makes One Issue Free Online By Quake
Shoeisha made a 2011’s 15th issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, the most popular Japanese manga(comic) magazine which is sold 3 million copies every week, online for free on Yahoo! Japan [J] and Nico …
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Ad Agency Giant Lets Publishers Digitize Their Business, Now More Than Ever
Dentsu, the world’s largest ad agency, announced today it would join forces with Yappa, an iPhone/iPod software developer which is strong in developing e-publication online reader, and launch a …
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Japan's Leading Publisher Fails To Monetize Its Main Portal
Reportedly Japan’s leading publisher Kodansha seems to have stopped updating its portal site on June 1st. The portal site, named “Moura[J]” (meaning “covering the entire …
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Major Publishers Co-launch Non-UGC Encyclopedia Site
Asahi Newspaper, the Internet portal company EC Navi[J] and major publishers like Kodansha and Shogakukan jointly launched Thursday an online encyclopedia containing 430,000 words, which is called …
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Comic Giant Officially Allows Bloggers To Republish One Of Its Titles
Kodansha, Japan’s leading comic and novel publisher, announced today that it is allowing bloggers to republish the comic titled “Mikako-san [J]” authored by famous cartoonist and …
