The series focuses on former Prime Minister of Japan Hayato Ikeda during the post-war economic boom of Japan in the 1960s.
This year’s 26th issue of Kodansha’s Weekly Morning magazine announced on Wednesday that Hideki Ohwada’s political manga Shippū no Hayato Shotoku Baizō Densetsu!!
The J-Cast website reported that Morning’s editorial department denied rumors that there was political pressure to cancel the manga.
The sixth compiled volume will ship on July 21 and the seventh volume will ship on August 22.