Kingu (magazine)

Kingu
Cover page of the 1943 edition
CategoriesGeneral interest
FrequencyMonthly
FounderSeiji Noma
FoundedDecember 1924
First issueJanuary 1925
Final issue1957
CompanyKodansha
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese
OCLC835840343

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]

  1. ^ Barbara Sato (2003). The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan. Durham, NC; London: Duke University Press. p. 190. ISBN 0-8223-3044-X.
  2. ^ "Mass Culture in Interwar Japan". Dissertation Reviews. 11 February 2013. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.