Kodansha

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Kodansha Ltd.

Logo used since 2021
Headquarters in Bunkyō, Tokyo
Native name	株式会社講談社
Romanized name	Kabushiki gaisha Kōdansha
Formerly	Dainippon Yubenkai-Kodansha (1911–1958)
Company type	Family-owned private KK
Industry	Publishing, music
Founded	1911; 113 years ago (1911) (as Dai Nippon Yūbenkai) December 1, 1931; 92 years ago (1931-12-01) (as Kodansha Ltd.)
Founder	Seiji Noma
Headquarters	Bunkyō, Tokyo , Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Yoshinobu Noma [jp][1] (president and CEO)
Products	Books, light novels, magazines, manga, comics, CDs and DVDs (through King Records)
Owner	Noma family (Noma Cultural Foundation 39.2%)
Number of employees	914 (as of September 2013[update])
Subsidiaries	King Record Co., Ltd. Kobunsha Co., Ltd. Kodansha USA Ichijinsha Wani Books
Website	www.kodansha.co.jp

Kodansha Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社講談社, Hepburn: Kabushiki-gaisha Kōdansha) is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo.^[2] Kodansha publishes the manga magazines Nakayoshi, Afternoon, Evening, Weekly Shōnen Magazine, and Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine, as well as the more literary magazines Gunzō, Shūkan Gendai, and the Japanese dictionary, Nihongo Daijiten. Kodansha was founded by Seiji Noma in 1910, and members of his family continue as its owners either directly or through the Noma Cultural Foundation.