is a publisher founded in 1896 in Japan and headquartered in Yaraichō, Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinchosha is one of the sponsors of the Japan Fantasy Novel Award. Books Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Uten Enten (1990), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1997), After the quake (2000), 1Q84 (2009-2010) Alex Kerr: Lost Japan (1993) Book series Magazines Weekly – since 1956 – manga, discontinued in 2010 Focus – suspended Monthly – Literary magazine since 1904 nicola (suspended) ENGINE – Automobile magazine, since 2000 Foresight – Japanese edition discontinued in 2010 - manga, since 2011 Web magazine Foresight – Japanese edition since 2010 Daily Shinchō – comprehensive news site basically excerpting from Shukan Shincho since 2015 Seasonal Grave of the Fireflies In 1967, Shinchosha published a short story Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka. 21 years later, Grave of the Fireflies was turned into a film by director Isao Takahata, animated by Studio Ghibli and co-distributed by Bandai Visual under their Emotion label and Toho. In turn, Shinchosha produced that film as Shinchosha 1988. The film was released in Japanese theaters on April 16, 1988. It was then licensed and released in North America as a subtitled VHS by Central Park Media on June 2, 1993, and later a 2-disc DVD by the same company in the same region, with the 1st disc featuring an English dub produced by Skypilot Entertainment and the original Japanese with English subtitles. The 2nd disc contained a retrospective on the author of the original book, an interview with the director, and an interview with critic Roger Ebert, who had expressed his admiration for the film on several occasions and ranked the film as one of the greatest of all time. Following the April 27, 2009, bankruptcy and liquidation of Central Park Media, ADV Films acquired the North American rights and re-released it on DVD on July 7, 2009, followed by former CPM titles such as MD Geist, Now and Then, Here and There and The World of Narue. Following the September 1, 2009, shutdown and rebranding of ADV Films, their successor, Sentai Filmworks, rescued the film and re-released it as a remastered DVD on March 6, 2012, and plan on releasing the film on digital outlets. A Blu-ray edition was released on November 20, 2012, featuring an all-new English dub produced by Seraphim Digital. StudioCanal released a Blu-ray in the United