 Weekly Playboy, November 16, 2009, with the cover model Nozomi Sasaki | |
| Categories | Men's magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Circulation | 195,834 (December 2015)[1] |
| First issue | November 15, 1966[2] |
| Company | Shueisha |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | wpb.shueisha.co.jp |
Weekly Playboy (Japanese: 週刊プレイボーイ, Hepburn: Shūkan Pureibōi), also known as Shūpure (週プレ) or WPB, is a Japanese weekly magazine published by Shueisha since 1966. Although the magazine publishes a variety of news and special interest articles, columns, celebrity interviews, and manga, it is considered an adult magazine.[citation needed] The target demographic is men, and each issue features several partially nude pictorials of female models.[citation needed]
This magazine is not a regional edition of the American Playboy magazine; the Japanese edition of that magazine was published as Monthly Playboy (MPB) by Shueisha until its cancellation in January 2009.[3]
- ^ "JMPA Magazine Data (October 2015 - December 2015)". Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ^ "Shueisha Shōshi". Shueisha. Retrieved 26 May 2007.
- ^ 土肥義則 (2 June 2009). 『週刊プレイボーイ』を悩ませていること……それは. Business Media Makoto (in Japanese). ITmedia. Retrieved 8 August 2010.