Shūkan Gendai (週刊現代, Modern Weekly) is a general-interest weekly magazine published by Kodansha in Tokyo, Japan.
[2] It is published by Kodansha,[3] the largest publishing house in Japan, which covers entertainment news, as well as hard news such as interviews with the Prime Minister of Japan and other VIPs in the political and financial world.
It also contains essays and opinions by well-known authors in serial form.
Shūkan Gendai is well known for its anti-nuclear power stance including opposing the restarting nuclear power stations.
In November 2012 the magazine was verbally warned by the Japanese authorities due to the obscene photos of female genitalia published.