'Bungeishunju' May Issue Released featuring <Tokyo Secret Talk: Thiel x Todd - Is the world coming to an end?>, <Akira Ikegami x Masaru Sato: The life or death of the raging lion Trump and the female leopard Takaichi>, <Second Lives of Prime Minister's Office Bureaucrats>, <Boss Shinjo's Magic>, etc.
Bungeishunju Ltd. announces the release of the May 2026 issue of its monthly magazine 'Bungeishunju' on April 10, featuring a variety of high-profile articles including political dialogues and interviews with executives.
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Bungeishunju Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Shigeyuki Iikubo) will release the May issue of 'Bungeishunju' on April 10, 2026.
▼ Introduction of contents (from the table of contents)
Special Feature: The survival strategy for the jungle era is here!
<"Shadow US President" and "Greatest modern intellectual" who met with Prime Minister Takaichi> Tokyo Secret Talk: P. Thiel x E. Todd - Is the world coming to an end? IN Bungeishunju
Supreme Leader Khamenei Decapitation Operation and Thiel's Crystal Ball (Palantir) by Yasuyuki Onishi
Akira Ikegami x Masaru Sato: The life or death of the raging lion Trump and the female leopard Takaichi
The US is nothing but money, violence, and vanity by E. Todd / Kan Ito
Diplomacy towards China: Do not repeat the failure of Senkaku by Hideo Tarumi
Prime Minister Takaichi doesn't understand others' feelings by Yuichiro Tamaki (DPFP) / Sohei Kamiya (Sanseito) / Takahiro Anno (Team Mirai)
The glorious second lives of prime minister's office bureaucrats: A list of all 25 people by the magazine's editorial department
A tense 90-minute meeting with Tetsuya Yamagami by Eito Suzuki
Manga One Incident: The anger of another female victim by Chika Akiyama
<"I never want to go through that again" from today's successful executives> The biggest failure of my life: Executive Edition
Tatsuya Yoshimoto, former president of J. Front Retailing
Masatoshi Kumagai, representative of GMO Internet Group
Hiroko Nakanishi, chairman of Bornelund
Seiji Nishimura, president of XCom Global
Yoshihisa Aono, president of Cybozu
Shuichiro Kimura, representative director of 'Maison Kayser'
Masao Ito, president of User Local
Nobuo Kawakami, advisor to Dwango
Masaharu Ashizawa, chairman of Yorisou
Boss Shinjo's magic by Tadahira Suzuki
Yoshimoto Kogyo will break out of being an "entertainment agency" by Akihiko Okamoto
Michelin theory of the successor to a Parisian three-star restaurant by Shintaro Awa
Ado: My experience of school refusal
Narita: "The choice not to go might be the best value of a school"
Ado: "I had painful memories, but it's better to have schools themselves"
Challenging Two-Sword Style, Master Fujii by Tetsuro Itodani (Executive Director, Japan Shogi Association)
Nizaemon Kataoka: My two-room apartment days are useful now
[Short-term serialization] [Part 2] 10 people reborn through cancer by Ren Inaizumi
Actor Yoko Akino
Showa history researcher Masayasu Hosaka
Architect Tadao Ando
Writer Mangetsu Hanamura
Writer Keiko Ochiai
"Raphael's Compass" A young elite doctor reexamines medical care in remote areas by Yuko Yuzuki
The 2026 art exhibitions that curators definitely want to visit
Mami Kataoka: Contemporary art doesn't have to be understood
Kushikatsu Tanaka: Keiji Nuki by Tatsuya Matsuura