Ie no Hikari
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Ie no Hikari (
History and profile
Ie no Hikari was established in 1925.
The magazine is part of and published by Ie-No-Hikari Association, founded in 1944 as part of Central Industrial Union, which was later renamed as Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives.[2] The magazine has its headquarters in Tokyo.[7][8]
Circulation
During the last half of 1931 the circulation of Ie no Hikari was 150,000 copies which reached more than 500,000 copies by December 1933.[3] In 1935 the magazine was read by a million people in the country.[3] It managed to keep this rate until 1944.[3]
In 1994 Ie no Hikari sold 983,736 copies.[9]
Ie no Hikari had a circulation of 586,572 copies in 2010 and of 582,983 copies in 2011.[10] In 2012 it was the sole Japanese magazine enjoyed circulation of half a million copies.[11] It was the sixth best-selling magazine in Japan between October 2014 and September 2015 with a circulation of 569,359 copies.[12]
Legacy
In 2019 Amy Bliss Marshall published a book named Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan in which she analysed Kingu and Ie no Hikari to demonstrate the birth of
References
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- ^ "Top paid-circulation consumer magazines". Ad Age. 17 April 1995. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
- ^ "Top 20 Magazines by ABC Circulation" (PDF). Nikkei. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 January 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
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- ^ a b "Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan". University of Toronto Libraries. Retrieved 26 July 2020.