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The story
Founded by Kan Kikuchi in 1923.1
Bungeishunjū was founded in 1923 by writer Kan Kikuchi. The company was disbanded in March 1946 but was reestablished in June of the same year.
In February 1995 the magazine Marco Polo, a 250,000-circulation monthly published by Bungeishunjū, ran a Holocaust denial article by physician Masanori Nishioka which stated:
The "Holocaust" is a fabrication. There were no execution gas chambers in Auschwitz or in any other concentration camp. Today, what are displayed as "gas chambers" at the remains of the Auschwitz camp in Poland are a post-war fabrication by the Polish communist regime or by the Soviet Union, which controlled the country. Not once, neither at Auschwitz nor in any territory controlled by the Germans during the Second World War, was there "mass murder of Jews" in "gas chambers."
The Los Angeles–based Simon Wiesenthal Center instigated a boycott of Bungeishunjū advertisers, including Volkswagen, Mitsubishi, and Cartier. Within days, Bungeishunjū shut down Marco Polo and its editor, Kazuyoshi Hanada, quit, as did the president of Bungeishunjū, Kengo Tanaka.
From Wikipedia’s article on Bungeishunjū, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3