Women's Club - Fujin Club

Japanese: 婦人俱楽部 - ふじんクラブ

A women's magazine launched by Kodansha in October 1920. It has built up a reputation as a practical magazine for daily life, and to this day stands alongside Shufu no Tomo as one of the leading magazines for housewives in Japan. From the Taisho to Showa periods, it also flourished as a publication for popular novels by Kikuchi Kan, Kume Masao, Sato Koroku, Yoshiya Nobuko and others. It was suspended for a time around the time of Japan's defeat in 1945, but soon returned to normal. After that, it changed its content and format in response to trends in the women's magazine industry as a whole, and maintained a stable readership, but ceased publication in March 1988.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1920年10月に講談社から創刊された女性雑誌。生活実用雑誌として実績をかさね，《主婦の友》と並ぶ，日本の主婦向け雑誌の代表として現在に至る。大正から昭和にかけて，菊池寛，久米正雄，佐藤紅緑，吉屋信子らの通俗小説の発表機関としても隆盛した。45年の敗戦前後には休刊したこともあったが，まもなく平常に復帰。以後は，女性雑誌界全体の動向に応じて，誌面の内容や判型を変え，安定した読者層を維持していたが88年3月廃刊。

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