Shūkan Shinchō (週刊新潮) is a Japanese conservative[1][2] weekly news magazine based in Tokyo, Japan.

[2] As of 2017 Mark Schreiber, a contributing writer of The Japan Times, argued that the readers of the magazine are mostly older and retired Japanese men.

This makes them the magazines of choice for men who want to read so-called alternative news (sources other than the major newspapers and broadcasters) but who don't want to look at, or be seen looking at, pornography.

[9] Shūkan Shinchō was found guilty of libel in a Tokyo court for publishing an unsubstantiated allegation of murder by a Soka Gakkai member.

[7] From October 2014 to September 2015 Shūkan Shinchō was the ninth-best selling magazine in Japan with a circulation of 537,596 copies.