Nippon Fujin

Political women's magazine in Japan (1942–1945)

Nippon FujinCategories| Political women's magazine

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Frequency| Monthly
Founder| Dai Nippon Kokubo Fujinkai
Founded| 1942
First issue| November 1942
Final issue| January 1945
Country| Japan
Based in| Tokyo
Language| Japanese

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.

## History and profile

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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

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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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b "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.