Do Japanese manga magazines have ISSNs?


I know Viz's _Shonen Jump_ has an ISSN (1545-7818), but that's from North
America.

Do any Japanese manga magazines (e.g. _Weekly Shonen Jump_ , _Monthly Shonen
Gangan_ , _Dengeki Daioh_ , _Comic Yuri Hime_ , etc.) have ISSNs?




By all indications, no.

There are a few places I checked. First, while Wikipedia gives the ISSN for
magazines such as [Shonen
Jump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shonen_Jump_\(magazine\)) but doesn't give
it for magazines such as [Weekly Shonen
Jump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Jump) or
[LaLa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaLa).

Second, I looked at OCLC WorldCat, which similarly gives the ISSN for [Shonen
Jump](https://www.worldcat.org/title/shonen-
jump/oclc/747819188&referer=brief_results) but not [Weekly Shonen
Jump](https://www.worldcat.org/title/shonen-
janpu/oclc/38103769&referer=brief_results) or
[LaLa](https://www.worldcat.org/title/rara-
lala/oclc/44949349&referer=brief_results). (Those are just some random popular
magazines I picked, I checked for others as well, I just don't want to list
them all.)

Lastly, I checked the ISSN International Centre, which has [Shonen
Jump](https://issn.org/resource/issn/1545-7818) but can't find Weekly Shonen
Jump or LaLa. The reason I didn't mention this first is that a lack of search
results is not always the best indicator of something not existing,
particularly when there are issues across languages, but I did search in both
English and Japanese, so I'm fairly certain this means there just aren't ISSNs
for them.

Extrapolating out, it can be assumed that Japanese manga magazines don't have
ISSNs. However, they do have
[雑誌コード](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%91%E8%AA%8C%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89)
(magazine codes) that are used as identification codes for magazines/journals
in Japan. The Wikipedia article is in Japanese but if you translate it, it
provides a decent explanation. You can also see the magazine code (09206-06)
to the left of the barcode in the magazine below.

[![Magazine with Magazine
Code](https://i.stack.imgur.com/36r6z.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/36r6z.jpg)




By all indications, no.

There are a few places I checked. First, while Wikipedia gives the ISSN for
magazines such as [Shonen
Jump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shonen_Jump_\(magazine\)) but doesn't give
it for magazines such as [Weekly Shonen
Jump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Jump) or
[LaLa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaLa).

Second, I looked at OCLC WorldCat, which similarly gives the ISSN for [Shonen
Jump](https://www.worldcat.org/title/shonen-
jump/oclc/747819188&referer=brief_results) but not [Weekly Shonen
Jump](https://www.worldcat.org/title/shonen-
janpu/oclc/38103769&referer=brief_results) or
[LaLa](https://www.worldcat.org/title/rara-
lala/oclc/44949349&referer=brief_results). (Those are just some random popular
magazines I picked, I checked for others as well, I just don't want to list
them all.)

Lastly, I checked the ISSN International Centre, which has [Shonen
Jump](https://issn.org/resource/issn/1545-7818) but can't find Weekly Shonen
Jump or LaLa. The reason I didn't mention this first is that a lack of search
results is not always the best indicator of something not existing,
particularly when there are issues across languages, but I did search in both
English and Japanese, so I'm fairly certain this means there just aren't ISSNs
for them.

Extrapolating out, it can be assumed that Japanese manga magazines don't have
ISSNs. However, they do have
[雑誌コード](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%91%E8%AA%8C%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89)
(magazine codes) that are used as identification codes for magazines/journals
in Japan. The Wikipedia article is in Japanese but if you translate it, it
provides a decent explanation. You can also see the magazine code (09206-06)
to the left of the barcode in the magazine below.

[![Magazine with Magazine
Code](https://i.stack.imgur.com/36r6z.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/36r6z.jpg)

