Suspense Magazine サスペンス・マガジン
Kubo Shoten's successor to Uramado (1965–1980), an SM magazine presented as crime fiction and shaped by Iida Toyoichi (Nureki Chimuo).
Suspense Magazine (Sasupensu Magajin) was the magazine Kubo Shoten published after Uramado closed. The historian Kawahara Azumi dates its launch to February 1965, immediately after Uramado’s final issue, and its end to December 1980.
Japanese Wikipedia’s article on Kubo Shoten describes it as a crime-fiction magazine in name and an SM magazine in practice: the letters S and M in the title were set off so that readers in the know would recognize it. Kawahara counts it, with Uramado, among the magazines that Iida Toyoichi, later known as Nureki Chimuo, built himself.
The magazine drew criticism throughout the 1960s. Kawahara records a suspension in May 1969, and Japanese Wikipedia links the stop to a complaint from a civic group and signs of a police crackdown, adding that it was the publisher’s only profitable title at the time. Iida, Suma Toshiyuki and the illustrator Muku Yōji left Kubo Shoten around then. The magazine returned in January 1972 under a new editor and continued until 1980.