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Although once hailed as the king of boys' magazines, "Yakyū shōnen" continued to decline due to the increasing influence of mass media such as sports newspapers and television. Overcoming seven years of hardship until around the mid-1957, thanks to the success of Japan's first manga weekly magazine,
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instructed the development of a magazine centered around gag manga. In 1981, anticipating the reader demand for a manga magazine focused on laughter, they launched Japan's first family four-panel manga magazine,
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business division in 2007, aiming to flexibly respond to organizational changes and expand into overseas markets, integrating new cultures and media to continue creating content beloved by many readers.
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