Nippon Fujin

Nippon Fujin (meaning Japanese Women in English) was a Japanese political women's 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 (meaning Greater Japan Women Association in English).[3][4] The association was a patriotic and nationalist women's organization.[5] 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 is closely similar to those in Frauen Warte, one of the Nazi periodicals targeting women.[6] Nippon Fujin folded in 1945 after producing twenty-four issues.[4]

References
  1. Sven Saaler; Christopher W. A. Szpilman (16 October 2017). Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History. Taylor & Francis. p. 957. ISBN 978-1-317-59903-6.
  2. Mariko Tamanoi (1998). Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of Rural Japanese Women. University of Hawaii Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-8248-2004-6.
  3. Sharalyn Orbaugh (2007). Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity. BRILL. p. 256. ISBN 90-04-15546-5.
  4. Andrea Germer (2013). "Visible cultures, invisible politics: propaganda in the magazine Nippon Fujin, 1942–1945". Japan Forum. 25 (4): 505–539. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  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. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  6. Julia Adeney Thomas; Geoff Eley (13 March 2020). Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right. Duke University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1-4780-0438-7.


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