Nippon Fujin

Nippon Fujin (Japanese: 日本婦人, romanized: Japanese Women) was a Japanese political magazine targeting women.[1] The magazine was one of the best-selling magazines during World War II in Japan.[2] It existed between 1942 and 1945.

Nippon Fujin
CategoriesPolitical women's magazine
FrequencyMonthly
FounderDai Nippon Kokubo Fujinkai
Founded1942
First issueNovember 1942
Final issueJanuary 1945
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese

History and profile

Nippon Fujin was started in 1942 by a women's organization, Dai Nippon Kokubo Fujinkai (Japanese: Greater Japan Women Association).[3][4] The association was a patriotic and nationalist women's organization.[5] The first issue appeared in November 1942.[6] The magazine was published on a monthly basis.[3] It contained nationalist propaganda material during the wartime.[4] 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 periodicals targeting women.[7] Nippon Fujin folded in January 1945 after producing twenty-four issues.[4][6]

References
  1. Sven Saaler; Christopher W. A. Szpilman, eds. (2017). Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History. London; New York: Routledge. p. 957. ISBN 978-1-317-59903-6.
  2. Mariko Tamanoi (1998). Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-8248-2004-6.
  3. Sharalyn Orbaugh (2007). Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity. Leiden; Boston, MA: BRILL. p. 256. ISBN 978-90-04-15546-6.
  4. Andrea Germer (2013). "Visible cultures, invisible politics: propaganda in the magazine Nippon Fujin, 1942–1945". Japan Forum. 25 (4): 505–539. doi:10.1080/09555803.2013.783092. S2CID 144809740.
  5. Sandra Wilson (June 2006). "Family or state?: Nation, war, and gender in Japan, 1937–45". Critical Asian Studies. 38 (2): 209–238. doi:10.1080/14672710600671194. S2CID 145226111.
  6. "日本婦人〔1942年11月～1945年1月【復刻版】" (in Japanese). Fuji Shuppan. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
  7. Ethan Mark (2020). "Fascisms Seen and Unseen: The Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, and the Relationalities of Imperial Crisis". In Julia Adeney Thomas; Geoff Eley (eds.). Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right. Durham, NC; London: Duke University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4780-0438-7.
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