Shūkanshi

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Shūkanshi (週刊誌) is a Japanese term for controversial muckraking weekly tabloid newspapers, named after the Shukan Shincho, a pioneer in the Japanese news market after World War II.

As noted by Watanabe and Gamble in the Japan Media Review, the genre is "often described as bizarre blends of various types of U.S. magazines, such as Newsweek, the New Yorker, People, Penthouse, and the National Enquirer."

Shukanshi continue their muckraking tradition, publishing such accounts as an allegation of murder by a Soka Gakkai member (which was the subject of a successful libel action against Shukan Shincho), a disputed Paleolithic settlement site in Japan, and the sexual exploits of baseball star Ichiro Suzuki.