Nippon Fujin Explained
| Frequency: | Monthly |
| Category: | Political women's magazine |
| Founder: | Dai Nippon Kokubo Fujinkai |
| Founded: | 1942 |
| Firstdate: | November 1942 |
| Finaldate: | January 1945 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Based: | Tokyo |
| Language: | Japanese |
Nippon Fujin (ja|日本婦人|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.
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]
Notes and References
- Book: Sven Saaler. Christopher W. A. Szpilman. Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History. 978-1-317-59903-6. Routledge. 2017. 957. London; New York.
- Book: Mariko Tamanoi. Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women. 1998. 44. Honolulu. University of Hawaiʻi Press. 978-0-8248-2004-6.
- Book: Sharalyn Orbaugh. Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity. 256. 2007. BRILL. 978-90-04-15546-6. Leiden; Boston, MA.
- Andrea Germer. Visible cultures, invisible politics: propaganda in the magazine Nippon Fujin, 1942–1945. Japan Forum. 2013. 25. 4. 505–539. 144809740. 10.1080/09555803.2013.783092.
- Sandra Wilson. Family or state?: Nation, war, and gender in Japan, 1937–45. Critical Asian Studies. June 2006. 38. 2. 209–238. 10.1080/14672710600671194. 145226111.
- Web site: 日本婦人〔1942年11月～1945年1月【復刻版】. Fuji Shuppan . 17 October 2021. ja.
- Book: Julia Adeney Thomas. Geoff Eley. Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right. 978-1-4780-0438-7. Geoff Eley. Duke University Press. Durham, NC; London. https://books.google.com/books?id=QsLNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT188. 2020. 188. Fascisms Seen and Unseen: The Netherlands, Japan, Indonesia, and the Relationalities of Imperial Crisis. Ethan Mark.
