Shūkanshi

is a Japanese term for any weekly magazine, including controversial muckraking weekly tabloid newspapers.

As noted by Watanabe and Gamble in the Japan Media Review, the genre is "often described as bizarre blends of various types of U.S. magazines, such as Newsweek, The New Yorker, People, Penthouse, and The National Enquirer."

Shūkanshi continue their muckraking tradition, publishing such accounts as an allegation of murder by a Sōka Gakkai member (which was the subject of a successful libel action against Shūkan Shinchō), a disputed Paleolithic settlement site in Japan, and the sexual exploits of baseball star Ichiro Suzuki.

External links

* [http://book.shinchosha.co.jp/shukanshincho/index.html Shukan Shincho (jp)]
* [http://ojr.org/japan/research/1091748643.php 'A Public Betrayed': The Power of Japan's Scandal-Breaking Weeklies, Watanabe & Gamble, Japan Media Review]
* [http://www.3justice.com/shirayama/index.shtml Libel action against Shukan Shincho for allegation of murder by Soka Gakkai member]
* [http://www.t-net.ne.jp/~keally/Hoax/shincho090300.html Article, Paleolithic Site in Japan]
* [http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2001/07/20010729p2g00m0dm999000c.html Article, Ichiro Suzuki]

ee also

* Shūkan Gendai
* Weekly Asahi Geinō
* Weekly Playboy