magazine
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...
was published in
Japan
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in October 1867. The magazine named ''Seiyo-Zasshi'' (meaning ''Western Magazine'' in English) was established and published until September 1869 by Shunzo Yanagawa, a
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
scholar. In 1940 there were nearly 3,000 magazines in the country. Following
World War II
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the number of magazines significantly increased. At the end of 2011 there were 3,376 magazines in the country.
The following is a list of magazines published in Japan. These may or may not be published in
Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
Akai tori
was a Japanese children's literary magazine published between 1918 and 1936 in Tokyo, Japan. The magazine has a significant role in establishing dowa and '' doyo'', which refer to new versions of children's fiction, poetry, and songs. In additi ...
AneCan
was a Japanese fashion magazine published by Shogakukan. The name derives from meaning "older sister" and ''Can'' from its sister magazine ''CanCam''. The magazine targeted women in their mid-late twenties, previous readers of ''CanCam''.
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Animage
is a Japanese anime and entertainment magazine published by Tokuma Shoten since July 1978. Notable works serialized in the magazine include Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist. He co-founded Studio Ghibli a ...
Best Motoring
was Japan's preeminent automobile magazine, video, and DVD series, before becoming a web video series. Alongside ''Best Motoring'', there were ''Hot Version'' and ''Video Option.''
History
With the first edition debuting in 1987 and the last ...
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Big Comic
is a semimonthly ''seinen'' manga magazine published since 18 February 1968 by Shogakukan in Japan.
Publication history
It was originally launched as a monthly magazine, but switched to twice monthly on the 10th and 25th beginning in April 1 ...
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Big Comic Original
is a Japanese manga magazine published by Shogakukan, aimed at an older adult and mostly male audience. It is a sister magazine to the manga magazine '' Big Comic'', the biggest difference being that it goes on sale twice a month in the weeks ...
Bluestocking
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Brutus
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Bungeishunjū
is a Japanese publishing company known for its leading monthly magazine '' Bungeishunjū''. The company was founded by Kan Kikuchi in 1923. It grants the annual Akutagawa Prize, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan, as well a ...
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Burrn!
is a monthly Japanese magazine for fans of heavy metal music, published since September 1984. It is the major publication on heavy metal music in the country. As of 2013, it is published by Shinko Music Entertainment in Tokyo
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CanCam
is a Japanese monthly fashion magazine published by Shogakukan. Its name supposedly derives from "I Can Campus", because girls who read it are expected to become "campus leaders". The magazine was created for fashion-conscious consumers, and offe ...
Cawaii!
''Cawaii!'' is a fashion magazine published in Taiwan, the People's Republic of China, Thailand, and previously in Japan.
History and profile
Launched as a monthly gal fashion magazine targeted at women in their teens in Japan in March 1996, ' ...
Ciao
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Originally from the Venetian language, it has entered the vocabulary of English and of many other languages around the world. Its dual mea ...
Comptiq
is a Japanese computer game magazine, first published in 1983, by Kadokawa Shoten. The name "Comptiq" came from combining the words "computer" and "boutique". Originally a PC magazine, its focus shifted from computers to computer games. As of ...
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CoroCoro Comic
is a Japanese children's manga magazine published by Shogakukan. It was established in 1977 and several of its properties, like ''Doraemon'' and the ''Pokémon'' series of games, have gone on to be cultural phenomena in Japan.
The name comes fr ...
Croissant
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It is a buttery, flaky, ''viennoiserie'' pastry inspired by the shape of the Austrian cuisine, Austrian ''Kifli, ...
Cure
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Dengeki Maoh
is a Japanese seinen magazine published by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks (publisher), MediaWorks). It first went on sale on October 27, 2005, and is sold every month on the twenty-seventh. The magazine features information on video games ...
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Dengeki PlayStation
was a Japanese video gaming publication by ASCII Media Works (formerly MediaWorks). It primarily features information pertaining to the PlayStation brand. ''Dengeki PlayStation'' was originally founded as a magazine in 1994 and ran until 2020, ...
Egg
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Faust
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Front
Front may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Films
* ''The Front'' (1943 film), a 1943 Soviet drama film
* '' The Front'', 1976 film
Music
* The Front (band), an American rock band signed to Columbia Records and active in the 1980s and ...
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Fruits
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Gothic & Lolita Bible
was a quarterly Japanese fashion mook which focuses on the Gothic and Lolita fashions. It was first published in 2001 by Index Communications, and is a spin-off of the Japanese fashion magazine ''Kera''.
In February 2008, an English-language ve ...
Happie Nuts
''Happie Nuts'' is a gal fashion magazine published monthly in Japan
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Ie no Hikari
''Ie no Hikari'' () is a monthly Japanese family magazine published in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the oldest and best-selling magazines in the country. In addition, it is one of two most popular magazines in Japan during the mid-twentieth century ...
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Japan Railfan Magazine
is a Japanese-language monthly magazine for railfans covering the mainly Japanese railways published by Koyusha. It has been published in Japan since 1961. Issues go on sale on the 21st of each month, two months before the cover month (e.g. th ...
Josei Jishin
is a Japanese weekly women's magazine, which has been in circulation since 1958. Published by Kobunsha, it is the first weekly women's magazine in Japan, which targets single-working women.
History and profile
''Josei Jishin'' was established ...
Jump Square
, also written as , is a Japanese monthly manga magazine. Published by Shueisha, the magazine premiered on November 2, 2007, as a replacement for ''Monthly Shōnen Jump'', another manga anthology that Shueisha discontinued in June of that year. ...
Kingu
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Koakuma Ageha
''Koakuma Ageha'' (, lit. "Little-devil Swallowtail ") is a Japanese magazine that introduces the latest fashion magazine, fashion and lifestyle magazine, lifestyle trends popular among hostesses that is published twice a year, with the main targ ...
Kokoku Hihyo
was a leading Japanese monthly trade magazine focusing on advertisement, especially TV commercials. It was published between 1979 and 2009.
History and profile
''Kokoku Hihyo'' was started by Yukichi Amano in 1979. It was modeled on '' Creati ...
Marco Polo
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MensEGG
''MensEGG'' was a style magazine distributed in Japan aimed at young men published between 1999 and 2013. It was a counterpart of '' Egg magazine'', which focused on Gyaru-oh (male Gyaru) fashions – it was the gyaru-oh bible. There is also ''M ...
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Men's Non-no
is a Japanese language, Japanese monthly men's fashion and lifestyle magazine based in Tokyo. Published by Shueisha, it is an offshoot of women's magazine ''Non-no''.
History
''Men's Non-no'' was started in 1986, and the first issue appeared in ...
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Monthly Shōnen Magazine
is a monthly shōnen manga magazine published in Japan by Kodansha. It was launched in 1964 under the name . In 1969 it was retitled as and its publication frequency increased from quarterly to monthly. After suspension in 1974 it started ...
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Newtype
is a monthly magazine originating from Japan covering anime and, to a lesser extent, manga, voice actors, science fiction, , and video games. It was launched by publishing company Kadokawa Shoten on March 8, 1985, and has since been released in ...
Non-no
is a Japanese women's fashion and lifestyle magazine published by Shueisha. The magazine is headquartered in Tokyo.
'' Men's Non-no'', targeted for a male demographic, was first published in 1987.
History
The magazine was established as a for ...
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Oily Boy
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Pichi Lemon
was a Japanese fashion magazine published by Gakken. The magazine targets girls from early- to mid-teens. The magazine was known for its models (called "Pichimo" as an abbreviation for "Pichi Lemon model"), as well as its abundance of fashion an ...
Popeye
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Popteen
''Popteen'' is a monthly teenage fashion magazine published by the ''Kadokawa Haruki Corporation'' in Japan. The first issue was published on 1 October 1980 by ''Kadokawa Shoten''. Later issues were published by ''Asuka Shinsha'' who bought the ...
Shashin Shūhō
''Shashin Shūhō'' () was an illustrated propaganda magazine of the Cabinet Intelligence Department which was published in Japan between 1938 and 1945. It was one of the most successful propaganda publications of Japan.
History and profile
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Shirakaba
The was an influential Japanese literary coterie, which published the literary magazine '' Shirakaba'', from 1910 to 1923.
History
In 1910, a loose association of alumni of the prestigious Gakushuin Peer’s School in Tokyo began a literary so ...
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Shiso
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Shūkan Bunshun
is a Japanese weekly tabloid ( shūkanshi) based in Tokyo, Japan, known for its investigative journalism and frequent clashes with the Japanese government. This has led to it being considered one of the most influential weekly magazines in the ...
Soen
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Sweet
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Uchusen
, also known as ''Space Magazine Uchusen'', is a Japanese magazine about science fiction and ''tokusatsu'' films, television series, and other media. First published in 1980 by the company Asahi Sonorama, the magazine's publication frequency alt ...
V Jump
is a Japanese shōnen manga magazine, focusing on manga as well as video games based on popular manga. The magazine's debut was in 1990 by Shueisha under the '' Jump'' line of magazines.
History
In the early 1990s, Shueisha directed ''Weekly ...
Weekly Manga Goraku
is a Japanese weekly manga magazine published since 1968, by Nihon Bungeisha. The magazine is published every Friday.
Serialized works
Listed alphabetically by title.
*''69 Denashi'' (Yasuhito Yamamoto)
*''Ad Boy'' (Makoto Niwano)
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Weekly Manga Sunday
, also known by the nickname , is a defunct Japanese weekly ''seinen'' manga magazine published by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. It started to be published under the name in 1959. On June 5, 2012, it start to be published twice in a month and the "Wee ...
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Weekly Morning
is a weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha. It debuted in 1982 as and was rebranded as Morning in 1991 while still maintaining its weekly publication tradition. The digital edition of the magazine is titled . It is the sis ...
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Weekly Shōnen Champion
is a Japanese Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga magazine published by Akita Shoten.
History
''Shōnen Champion'' was first published on July 15, 1969. It has had numerous popular series by manga artists such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shinji Miz ...
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Weekly Shōnen Jump
is a weekly Shōnen manga, ''shōnen'' manga anthology published in Japan by Shueisha under the ''Jump (magazine line), Jump'' line of magazines. The manga series within the magazine consist of many Action (fiction), action scenes and a fair ...
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Weekly Shōnen Magazine
is a weekly ''shōnen'' manga magazine published on Wednesdays in Japan by Kodansha, first published on March 17, 1959. The magazine is mainly read by an older audience, with a significant portion of its readership falling under the male high ...
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Weekly Shōnen Sunday
is a weekly manga magazine published in Japan by Shogakukan since March 1959. Contrary to its title, ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' issues are released on Wednesdays. ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' has sold over 1.8billion copies since 1986, making it ...
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Weekly Toyo Keizai
is a weekly business and finance magazine published in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1895 it is one of the earliest business publications in the country.
History and profile
The magazine was established in 1895 under the name ''Toyo Keizai Shimpo''. ...
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Weekly Young Jump
is a Japanese manga magazine published by Shueisha. Launched in 1979, it is published under Shueisha's '' Jump'' line of magazines. The chapters of series that run in ''Weekly Young Jump'' are collected and published in volumes under the "Y ...
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Weekly Young Magazine
is a Japanese weekly anthology magazine published in Tokyo each Monday by Kodansha. The magazine started on June 16, 1980, and is targeted at the adult male () demographic. It was published bimonthly (under the title ), on the second and fourth ...
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You
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History
''You'' comes from ...
Young You
was a Japanese josei manga magazine published by Shueisha, based in Tokyo and first published in 1986. It ran for 22 years before being cancelled in October 2005. After the magazine's closure, Shueisha moved several series serialized in ''You ...
Yuri Shimai
was a yuri manga anthology magazine published quarterly by Japanese publisher Sun Magazine.The magazine existed between June 2003 and November 2004. It was part of what still is a small niche market, with only a few manga magazines in Japan tha ...
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See also
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List of Japanese manga magazines by circulation
The following is a list of Japanese manga magazines by circulation, during the timespan of October 1 to December 31, 2024. These figures have been collected by the Japanese Magazine Publishers Association, which updates every three months. The upda ...
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References
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Japan
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Magazines
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...