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Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese weekly seinen manga magazine published by Houbunsha

Houbunsha

is a Japanese publishing company founded on July 10, 1950.-Manga Time magazines:*Manga Time*Manga Time Jumbo*Manga Time Lovely*Manga Time Family*Manga Time Special*Manga Time Original*Manga Home-Manga Time Kirara magazines:...

 since November 1956. The publisher claims it was Japan's

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 first weekly manga magazine, and the magazine is published every Friday. While its name resembles that of its sister magazine Manga Time

Manga Time

is a Japanese monthly yonkoma manga magazine published by Hōbunsha since June 1981. The magazine is released monthly on the seventh. Manga Home is printed as B5 size. The magazine is sometimes referred to as simply . It was created in 1981 by spinning off from Japan's first weekly manga magazine,...

, it does not publish yonkoma

Yonkoma

thumb|right|150px|Traditional Yonkoma layout, a comic-strip format, generally consists of gag comic strips within four panels of equal size ordered from top to bottom...

 manga. The magazine is also known by the nickname , and uses the slogan . Manga Times has a weekly circulation of about 380,000.

Weekly Manga Times became known as one of the big three weekly manga magazines along with Weekly Manga Goraku

Weekly Manga Goraku

is a Japanese weekly manga magazine published since 1968 by Nihon Bungeisha which targets a demographic of middle aged men instead of one of the more common targets of seinen or shōnen manga. The magazine is published every Friday....

, published by Nihon Bungeisha

Nihon Bungeisha

, or , is a book and magazine publisher established in 1959 and based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.-Magazines:*Weekly Manga Goraku*Bessatsu Manga Goraku*Manga Goraku Nexter*Golf Lesson Comic*Manga Pachinko Dairenshō...

, and Manga Sunday, published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha

Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha

is a Japanese publishing company founded on June 10, 1897.-Monthly:*Body+*Comic Candoll*GarrRV*Garuru*Misty*Monthly Bijutsu*Monthly J-novel*My Birthday*Waggle...

. From 1969 until 1980, the magazine advertised on the outfield fence at Meiji Jingu Stadium

Meiji Jingu Stadium

is a baseball stadium in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It opened in 1926 and holds 37,933 spectators. Property of the Meiji Shrine, it is the home field of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows professional baseball team...

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A one-panel manga by Sunao Hari

Sunao Hari

, real name , is a Japanese manga artist and illustrator, martial artist born 15 March 1933 in Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Saga Prefectural Saga High School ....

 titled Weekend Egao was published on the table of contents

Table of contents

A table of contents, usually headed simply "Contents" and abbreviated informally as TOC, is a list of the parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts appear...

 page until the spring of 2008 when it was moved to the last page. Additionally, the interior paper was changed to use a higher quality white paper rather than the standard lower grade newsprint

Newsprint

Newsprint is a low-cost, non-archival paper most commonly used to print newspapers, and other publications and advertising material. It usually has an off-white cast and distinctive feel. It is designed for use in printing presses that employ a long web of paper rather than individual sheets of...

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The cover of Weekly Manga Times has featured a realistic painting of a young woman on every issue. The cover artist since the April 1970 issue has been Keizō Tsukamoto, for which he won a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records for "the world's longest continuous career illustrating one magazine".

Weekly Manga Times also features a series titled . The series is a one-panel comic which is used to fill blank space within each issue and consists of submissions from readers which are judged by veteran manga artist

Mangaka

is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside of Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese...

 Taira Hara

Taira Hara

was a Japanese manga artist and tarento born in Tosayamada , Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. He was a long-time resident of Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. He made his professional manga debut in 1963 with his story , published in Weekly Manga Times.-History:Hara was the oldest son, though he had an...

. As the entries consist of reader submissions, the authors and artists are constantly changing.

Currently serialized works

Listed alphabetically by title.

• Coin Locker Monogatari (author Tsunehisa Itō, artist Shinji Miyagi)
• Haruka no Sue (author Disk-Furai, artist Yasumasa Nishizaki)
• Issho ni kurasu tameno Yakusoku wo ikutsuka (Ahiru Okano)
• Kamisama Biyori (Masahiro Morio）
• Koryōriya Minako (Takeshi Miya, created by Takayuki Minami)
• Kowashiya Gen (author Hideki Hoshino, artist Sadayoshi Ishii)
• Kura no Yado - Yuki to Hana to (author Yūji Nishi, artist Toshinobu Tana)
• Myōgatani Namidasaka Shinryōsho (author Jun Ujitani, artist Tsuguo Kōgo)
• Nobunaga no Chef (author Mitsuru Nishimura, artist Takurō Kajikawa)
• Toshokan no Aruji (Umiharu Shinohara)
• Varistor (author Rei Hanagata, artist Tomomi Muronaga)
• Wakaokusama Kiki ippatsu (Emai Komotoda)

Occasional series

• Akatsuki no Kyōshitsu (Azusa Itakura)
• Chabashira Club (Sachiko Aoki)
• Drive Gohan (Ariyuki Hirosue)
• Higurashi Fudosan Akishitsu ari (Hiroshi Itaba)
• Kimi no Kazoku (Samematio)
• Mushoi (Tomomi Satō)
• Tsuribune Misakimaru (Kenichi Eguchi)
• Tokkō no Shima (Shūhō Satō)

Previously serialized works

Listed alphabetically by title.

• Aisazu ni Irarenai (author Umine Hijikata, artist Yū Matsuhisa)
• Akahana deka (author Suisei Ogawa, artist Ikki Matsuda)
• Anokoro orewa Jyoshikōsei (Shō Arai)

• Bengoshi Tasuke (author Hōdō Harimura, artist Jun Hayase, irregular publication)
• Boku no Mini (Hiroki Nakagawa)
• Bura con (Chōsuke Nagasima)

• Cheese no Jikan (author Satoshi Hanagata, artist Yoshinobu Yamaguchi)
• Coffee Dream (author Satoshi Hanagata, artist Osamu Hiramatsu, irregular publication)

• Daboshatsu no Ten (Toshiya Masaoka)
• Daigaku no Oyabun (Baron Yoshimoto)
• Dokushin Apāto Dokudami Shō (Takashi Fukutani)
• Dokure-mono (author Tsunehisa Itō, Kenji Tagami)
• Darwin no Houteishi (author Hideyuki Ishizeki, Tsuyoshi Masuda)
• Doterai yatsu (author Kobako Hanato, Masamichi Yokoyama)

• Earth (Ayumi Tachihara)

• Fukushû no Kyojû (author Sergio Seki, Kōhei Tutsumi)
• Fûryû Tsumami-dōjō (Lasswell Hosoki)

• Getabaki Kâchan (Kojirō)
• Goshujin-sama to Yobanaide (author Yōusuke Moriguchi, Atsuchi Kuragami)

• Hachimaki Ojisan (Taku Shiraki)
• Hagawa no Ijô na Aijô (Takahiro Ôba)
• Haisai Shinbun Bunkaseikatsubu (author Tarô Takatsu, Osamu Hiramatsu)
• Hana Trail (Osamu Hiramatsu)
• Hashire! Bankman (Hiroshi Takano)
• Hatsukoi Drug (Ayumu Nanase)
• Himawari kun (Nobuyuki Kômasu)
• Honō no Bartender (Atsushi Mori, created by Ryūsei Kaji, irregular publication)

• Ikusa gaki(Fumiyasu Ishikawa, created by Gorō Oki
  Takao Saito
  is a Japanese manga and gekiga artist. He is best known for creating the successful series Golgo 13.-Early life and career:Takao Saito was born on November 3, 1936 in Wakayama Prefecture. During his school days in Osaka he was the best in his class in drawing and fighting, and also considered...
  
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• Immoral (Shūichi Sakanabe)

• Jotei (author Ryō Kurashina, artist Issaku Wake)

• Kanojo de Ippai (Johji Manabe
  Johji Manabe
  is a Japanese manga artist.He is not to be confused with an animator of the same name , who worked mainly in the 1970s for Oh! Production: A Dog of Flanders, Genshi Shōnen Ryû, Marco, Dokonjō Gaeru, King Arthur, Galaxy Express 999, Lupin the 3rd: Season 1, Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro,...
  
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• King size (author Ikkō Shimizu, Masamichi Yokoyama)
• Koe hime (Takeshi Takebayashi)
• Konikura Jîsan (Yoshirō Kamachi)
• Kura no Yado (author Yūji Nishi, artist Toshinobu Tana)

• Labyrinth (Ma'ako)
• Love 30 (Ma'ako)
• Love-ho na Oshigoto (Chōsuke Nagashima)

• Maruhi Shanai Ren'ai (each story is by a different artist/author)
• Masashi-kun (Masashi Ueda
  Masashi Ueda
  is a comic book artist who wrote Kobo, the Li'l Rascal .Ueda began drawing comic book strips when he worked in his brother's cram school. Ueda began producing Furiten-kun, a comic book strip about a mahjong player, in 1979. In 1982 Ueda won the Bungeishunjū Manga Award. During that year he began...
  
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• Matori (author Seiji Hosono, artist Tadashi Ichinose)
• Miyamoto Musashi (Baron Yoshimoto)

• Nagareboshi no Yado (author Yūji Nishi, Toshinobu Tana)
• Nanoka Dôsei (Shûichi Sakabe)
• Nice Middle Jōjima Buchō (Hitsuji Mitani, simultaneously serialized in Manga Time
  Manga Time
  is a Japanese monthly yonkoma manga magazine published by Hōbunsha since June 1981. The magazine is released monthly on the seventh. Manga Home is printed as B5 size. The magazine is sometimes referred to as simply . It was created in 1981 by spinning off from Japan's first weekly manga magazine,...
  
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• Omoidebashi Garakutahonpo (Keizō Yoshiie)
• Onna-gui (author Yoshinori Hiroyama, Takeshi Mine)
• Onna Kansatsui (author Rō Hatta, Chikae Ide)
• Otoko-gui (author Tsunehisa Itō, Tsuguo Kougo)

• Pasta de Buono (Ryûji Okita)
• Pink gal (Yukio Shishikura)

• Rape (Shūichi Sakanabe)

• Sagishi Ippei (author Yōichi Nishi, Junichi Miyata)
• Salaryman Kaneshirō (Shō Tanaka)
• Shinmanga bungaku zenshu (Sadao Shōji)
• Shōwa Jōwa (Hiroshi Kurogane)

• Tokoton Toshiko (Toshiko Hara)
• Tokusō Deka (author Kōichi Iiboshi
  Kōichi Iiboshi
  was a famous Japanese journalist and writer for Yomiuri Shinbun.-Career:Iiboshi was an alumnus of Kyoto University. He was the vice copy chief of the social news division of the national Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun....
  
  , Taka Momonari)

• Yakubyō-gami (author Hiroyuki Kurokawa, Yōji Iori)
• Yasuji no Ninkyōdō (Yasuji Tanioka)
• Yaju keisatsu (author Kōichi Saitō, Takeshi Mine)
• Yoshiji no Shūkan Enikki (Yoshiji Suzuki, series ended in 2004 when the author died)