Kodansha

Kodansha is a privately held Japanese publishing and music company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo. Seiji Noma founded it in November 1909, and his family still owns it, directly or through the Noma Cultural Foundation.

Its manga magazines include Weekly Shōnen Magazine, Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, Weekly Young Magazine, Morning, Afternoon and the girls' magazine Nakayoshi. Outside comics it publishes literary titles such as Gunzō and the weekly Shūkan Gendai.

English-language editions of many Kodansha series come out through its US subsidiary, Kodansha USA.