Kingu (magazine)

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Kingu
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Kingu (キング, King) was a monthly general interest and entertainment magazine published in Tokyo, Japan, which existed between December 1924 and January 1957. It was the first popular best-selling Japanese magazine.[1] It was also one of two most significant magazines in mid-twentieth century Japan, the other one being Ie no Hikari.[2]

History and profile

Kingu was established in December 1924.

Saturday Evening Post[8] and Ladies' Home Journal.[4] The magazine was published by Kodansha[9] on a monthly basis.[7]

Kingu covered moralistic stories and featured articles about

Kikuchi Kan, Maki Itsuma, Funabashi Seiichi, Tateno Nobuyuki, and Tsunoda Kikuo.[6] It ended publication in 1957.[5]

Circulation

Both Kingu and Ie no Hikari were the first Japanese million-seller magazines.[11] Kingu sold one million copies in its first year, 1925.[5] In 1928 the monthly circulation of the magazine was nearly 300,000 copies.[12] The same year its total circulation was 1.4 million copies.[13] Kingu sold more than a million copies again in 1927.[14]

Legacy

In 2019 Amy Bliss Marshall published a book named Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan in which she analyzed Kingu and Ie no Hikari to demonstrate the birth of

mass culture in Japan.[15] The author argues that these two magazines were instrumental in the establishment of mass culture and in the socialization in Japan.[15]

The name of Kodansha's music subsidiary King Records was actually based from the magazine.

References

  1. ISBN 0-8223-3044-X
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  2. ^ "Mass Culture in Interwar Japan". Dissertation Reviews. 11 February 2013. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  3. ^ Kazumi Ishii (August 2005). "Josei: A Magazine for the 'New Woman'". Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context (11).
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    ProQuest 304468205
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    ISBN 978-0-549-71329-6
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  6. ^ a b "A Guide to Japanese References and Research Materials". University of Michigan. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
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    ISBN 90-6203-968-5
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  8. ^ "Timeline of Modern Japan (1868-1945)". About Japan. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  9. ISBN 978-0-520-21934-2
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  10. ISBN 978-1-317-87895-7
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  11. ^ Amy Bliss Marshall (October 2013). "Devouring Japan: Proposal" (PDF). University of Texas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  12. ISBN 978-0-8248-2360-3
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  13. S2CID 145523341
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  14. ISBN 9780824837907
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  15. ^ a b "Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan". University of Toronto Library. Archived from the original on 26 July 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
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