Fujin Koron - Fujin Koron

A monthly women's magazine published by Chuokoron-Shinsha. The July 1913 issue of Chuokoron, a special edition on women's issues, was well received, and the magazine was launched in January 1941. The first editor-in-chief was Shimanaka Yusaku, who had also planned the previous special edition. It started out as a magazine for women's education, aiming to expand women's rights, and often became a stage for debates about women's lifestyles. In that respect, it was a general magazine, and different from other women's magazines that focused on lifestyle articles. It was forced to cease publication with the March 1944 issue at the end of the Pacific War, but was relaunched in April 1946, and since then, it has gradually shifted from being an opinion magazine to devoting pages to topics such as "women's" sexuality. In the late 1990s, the magazine has been trying to change its image by making the magazine larger. In February 1999, Chuokoron-Shinsha became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Yomiuri Shimbun, becoming Chuokoron-Shinsha.

[Mitsuo Oka and Norio Tamura]

"Fifty Years of Fujin Koron" (1965), edited and published by Chuokoronsha

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中央公論社発行の女性月刊誌。1913年（大正2）7月発行の『中央公論』臨時増刊・婦人問題号の好評が引き金になって16年1月創刊。初代編集長は先の臨時増刊を企画した嶋中(しまなか)雄作。女権拡張を目ざす女性教養誌として出発、しばしば女性の生き方をめぐる論争の舞台となった。その点、総合雑誌的で、生活記事中心の他の女性雑誌と異質であった。太平洋戦争末期の44年（昭和19）3月号を最後に廃刊に追い込まれたが、46年（昭和21）4月復刊、その後、オピニオン誌からしだいに「おんな」の性などにもページを割くようになってきた。90年代後半になり、判型を大きくしたりしてイメージを変えようとしている。なお、中央公論社は、1999年（平成11）2月読売新聞社の100％子会社となり、中央公論新社となった。

［岡　満男・田村紀雄］

『中央公論社編・刊『婦人公論の五十年』（1965）』

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