Categories | Family magazine |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Ie no Hikari Association |
Founded | 1925 |
Country | Japan |
Based in | Tokyo |
Language | Japanese |
Website | https://www.ienohikari.net/ |
OCLC | 649014893 |
Ie no Hikari ( Japanese: 家の光, romanized: ie no hikari, lit. 'Light in Home') is a monthly Japanese family magazine published in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the oldest and best-selling magazines in the country. In addition, it is one of two most popular magazines in Japan during the mid-twentieth century, the other one being Kingu magazine. [1] Both are the first Japanese million-seller magazines.
Ie no Hikari was established in 1925. [2] [3] Shimura Gentarō and Arimoto Hideo, leaders of the Industrial Cooperative, were instrumental in the foundation of the magazine. [1] At the initial period the magazine was controlled by the ministry of agriculture and forestry, [3] and was published by the Industrial Cooperative. The magazine targets rural readers. [4] However, it has another version for urban readers. [5] It supports for agrarianism and features articles on home economics, children's stories and news. [3] During the 1930s it covered articles on Manchuria Crisis in parallel to the official views of the government. [3] In 1933 the magazine serialized a novel by Toyohiko Kagawa, Chichi to Mitsu no Nagaruru Sato (Japanese: A village where milk and honey flow). [6] It was about the implementation of cooperative insurance. [6]
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]
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]
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 mass culture in Japan. [13] The author argues that these two magazines were instrumental in the establishment of mass culture and in the socialization in Japan. [13]
Categories | Family magazine |
---|---|
Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher | Ie no Hikari Association |
Founded | 1925 |
Country | Japan |
Based in | Tokyo |
Language | Japanese |
Website | https://www.ienohikari.net/ |
OCLC | 649014893 |
Ie no Hikari ( Japanese: 家の光, romanized: ie no hikari, lit. 'Light in Home') is a monthly Japanese family magazine published in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the oldest and best-selling magazines in the country. In addition, it is one of two most popular magazines in Japan during the mid-twentieth century, the other one being Kingu magazine. [1] Both are the first Japanese million-seller magazines.
Ie no Hikari was established in 1925. [2] [3] Shimura Gentarō and Arimoto Hideo, leaders of the Industrial Cooperative, were instrumental in the foundation of the magazine. [1] At the initial period the magazine was controlled by the ministry of agriculture and forestry, [3] and was published by the Industrial Cooperative. The magazine targets rural readers. [4] However, it has another version for urban readers. [5] It supports for agrarianism and features articles on home economics, children's stories and news. [3] During the 1930s it covered articles on Manchuria Crisis in parallel to the official views of the government. [3] In 1933 the magazine serialized a novel by Toyohiko Kagawa, Chichi to Mitsu no Nagaruru Sato (Japanese: A village where milk and honey flow). [6] It was about the implementation of cooperative insurance. [6]
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]
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]
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 mass culture in Japan. [13] The author argues that these two magazines were instrumental in the establishment of mass culture and in the socialization in Japan. [13]