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was a monthly general interest and entertainment magazine published in Tokyo, Japan, which existed between
December 1924 and January 1957. It was the first popular best-selling Japanese magazine. It was also one of two most significant magazines in mid-twentieth century Japan, the other one being
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sold one million copies in its first year, 1925. In 1928 the monthly circulation of the magazine was nearly 300,000 copies. The same year its total circulation was 1.4 million copies.
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in Japan. The author argues that these two magazines were instrumental in the establishment of mass culture and in the
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was established in
December 1924. The first issue appeared in January 1925. It was the eighth magazine launched by
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All the girl's a stage: Representations of femininity and adolescence in
Japanese girls' magazines, 1930s–1960s
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events. The magazine was read by urban and rural men and women. Major contributors included
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Being Modern in Japan: Culture and
Society from the 1910s to the 1930s
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Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the
Culture of Wartime Imperialism
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The New
Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan
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Justice: The Indiana Tradition in Speech Communication
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Intersections: Gender, History and
Culture in the Asian Context
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covered moralistic stories and featured articles about
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Monthly general interest magazine in Japan (1924-1957)
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330:"Mass Culture in Interwar Japan"
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522:About Japan
226:Circulation
220:Kikuchi Kan
83:Final issue
75:First issue
793:Categories
285:References
274:in Japan.
182:Seiji Noma
61:Seiji Noma
41:Categories
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545:(1999).
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186:Kodansha
125:Japanese
121:Language
111:Based in
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