''Nippon Fujin'' () was a Japanese political magazine targeting women. The magazine was one of the best-selling magazines during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

. It existed between 1942 and 1945.

History and profile

''Nippon Fujin'' was started in 1942 by a women's organization, Dai Nippon Kokubo Fujinkai (Japanese: Greater Japan Women Association). The association was a

patriotic Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to one's country or state. This attachment can be a combination of different feelings for things such as the language of one's homeland, and its ethnic, cultural, politic ...

and nationalist women's organization. The first issue appeared in November 1942. The magazine was published on a monthly basis. It contained nationalist

propaganda Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded l ...

material during the wartime. German historian Andrea Germer argues that visual propaganda materials included in ''Nippon Fujin'' are closely similar to those in '' Frauen Warte'', one of the

Nazi Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right politics, far-right Totalitarianism, totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During H ...

periodicals targeting women. ''Nippon Fujin'' folded in January 1945 after producing twenty-four issues.

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