Reader's Digest

Japanese: リーダーズ・ダイジェスト(英語表記)Reader’s Digest
Reader's Digest
DeWitt Wallace (1889-1981), the son of an American preacher, and his wife, founded this pocket-sized monthly magazine in Greenwich Village, New York, in 1922. Starting with a circulation of 5,000 copies at the time of its inception, it has since been published in 17 languages ​​and 41 editions, including a Spanish version called "Selecciones" for Latin America and a Japanese version launched in June 1946, and boasts the world's largest circulation of 31 million copies (1984) in 170 countries.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
アメリカの説教師の息子のウォーレスDeWitt Wallace(1889‐1981)夫妻が1922年,ニューヨークのグリニチ・ビレッジで創刊したポケットサイズの月刊雑誌。創刊時の5000部から出発して,次いで出された中南米向けのスペイン語版《セレクシオネス》や46年6月に創刊された日本語版をはじめ今や17ヵ国語,41版で発行され,世界170ヵ国で3100万部(1984)に達して世界最大の発行部数を誇る。

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