
The twenty-six volumes were released from September 12, 2006, to April 12, 2011. In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga in late 2005. Shogakukan collected its chapters chapters into twenty-six tankōbon volumes, published from March 18, 2002, to April 18, 2007.

It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from December 26, 2001, to January 10, 2007. Yakitate!! Japan is written and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi.

While this gives him an advantage early on, his innovation is his greater talent. Besides a desire to create Ja-pan, Azuma also possesses legendary Hands of the Sun ( 太陽の手, Taiyō no Te): hands that are warmer than typical, prompting dough to ferment faster. The characters bake their bread using their burning passion and even anger, similar to the legendary Kanjitake ( 河内 恭) cooking style of Hokkaido. Along the way, he meets other bakers, both learning from and competing against them. He heads to Tokyo with the intention of working at the famous bread-making chain Pantasia. Kazuma Azuma is a boy on a quest to create "Ja-pan", a national bread for Japan, as many other countries have their own signature breads. Main article: List of Yakitate!! Japan characters Yakitate!! Japan won the 49th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category in 2004.
YAKITATE JAPAN CHARACTERS SERIES
In North America, the manga was licensed in English by Viz Media in 2005 and Nozomi Entertainment licensed the anime series in 2014.

YAKITATE JAPAN CHARACTERS TV
A 69-episode anime television series adaptation by Sunrise was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 2004 to March 2006. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from December 2001 to January 2007, with its chapters collected in twenty-six tankōbon volumes. "Freshly Baked!! Ja-pan") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Hashiguchi.
