Explanation: Extreme right-wing magazines in Japan

"Monthly Will" (WAC Publishing) and "Monthly Hanada" (Asuka Publishing) are the most conspicuous extreme right-wing magazines in Japan. "Monthly Will" and "Monthly Hanada" are said to sell 80,000 copies and 50,000 copies respectively. "Hanada" is named after its editor in chief, Kazuyoshi Hanada.

In addition to them, there are many extreme right-wing magazines in Japan. "Japanism" (Seirindo Publishing) is one example of the other extreme right wing magazines which features not only political issues but cultural or spiritual topics.

"Seiron" (Sankei Newspaper) and "Voice" (Yomiuri Newspaper) are such monthly magazines published by newspaper companies. They were started in the Cold War era and have a longer history than "Monthly Will", "Monthly Hanada" or "Japanism", which were started in 2004, 2016 and 2011 respectively. Yomiuri Newspaper is the world's largest newspaper which sells 8.5 million copies every day. Sankei Newspaper and Yomiuri Newspaper are newspapers in extreme right-wing tendency.

Monthly Bunshun (Bungei Shunju Publishing) and Monthly Shincho (Shincho-sha Publishing)  are basically literature magazines. But they also publish extreme right-wing author's political articles. Bungei Shunju Publishing and Shincho-sha Publishing also issue weekly gossip magazines, "Weekly Bunshun" and "Weekly Shincho", respectively.

On the other hand, several right-wing magazines were discontinued recently. Bungei Shunju Publishing discontinued their monthly extreme right-wing magazine "Shokun!" in 2009. Shogakukan Publishing abandoned the regular issue of "SPA!" in 2019. "SPA!" was issued weekly in its golden age, but due to recent slowing sales, the interval of its issue elongated to two weeks, eventually Shogakukan Publishing abandoned its regular issue. These discontinuation of right-wing magazines reflects the increasing competitive pressure in the right-wing magazine market.