Fujin no Tomo

Fujin no Tomo (Japanese: 婦人之友; The Women’s Friend) is a monthly women's magazine targeting housewives which has been in circulation since 1903. The magazine is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.[1]

Fujin no Tomo
Former editorsHani Motoko
CategoriesWomen's magazine
FrequencyMonthly
Founder
Founded1903
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese
WebsiteFujin no Tomo

History and profile

The magazine was founded in 1903 by Yoshikazu and Hani Motoko, under the name Katei no Tomo (Japanese: The Family Friend).[2] In 1908 it was renamed as Fujin no Tomo.[2][3] Hani Motoko also served as the editor-in-chief of the magazine which targets housewives.[4] The readers were primarily the middle-class women living in the newly established urban centres.[4] The original goal was to make the status of women much better which reflected the Christian liberal views of the magazine founder Hani Motoko.[5] The magazine has mostly covered articles which aim to provide practical help them in daily life.[6][4] It has also published annual accounting book for families which introduced accounting to the modern Japanese families.[4]

Abe Isoo was among the contributors of Fujin no Tomo[3] which is published on a monthly basis.[7]

References
  1. "Fujin no tomo". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  2. Takuji Ichikawa (14 February 2018). "Japan's first magazine targeting women, Katei-no-Tomo, was launched in 1903". Red Circle. Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  3. Torsten Weber (Spring 2014). "The pursuit of happiness in modern Japan" (PDF). The Newsletter of IIAS (67).
  4. Naoko Komori (2007). "The "hidden" history of accounting in Japan: A historical examination of the relationship between Japanese women and accounting". Accounting History. 12 (3): 337–339. doi:10.1177/1032373207079037. S2CID 154321027.
  5. Sarah Anne Frederick (2000). Housewives, modern girls, feminists: Women's magazines and modernity in Japan (PhD thesis). The University of Chicago. pp. 14–15. ProQuest 304639224.
  6. Martyn David Smith (2018). Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan. London; New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-350-03077-0.
  7. Midori Itō (2002). "Hani Motoko and the Spread of Time Discipline into the Household". Japan Review (14): 135–147. JSTOR 25791259.
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