, also known as ''The Asahi Picture News'', was a Japanese weekly pictorial magazine that ran from 1923 until 2000. ''Asahi Graph'' started on 25 January 1923 as a daily feature from Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of ''

Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition a ...

'' and soon also of ''

Asahi Camera was a Japanese monthly photographic magazine, published from April 1926 until July 2020, when it was discontinued due to declining circulation. History and profile The first issue was that for April 1926.During the twentieth century, Japanese mon ...

''); this ran until 1 September 1923 when it was stopped by the major earthquake in Tokyo. It was back as a weekly from 14 November. In 1926 it was joined by ''Asahi Graphic'' (朝日グラフィック) which the Osaka branch of Asahi Shinbunsha had been publishing since 2 January 1921. ''Asahi Graph'' survived

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

and reemerged as something of a Japanese equivalent of the US magazine ''

Life Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as Cell signaling, signaling and self-sustaining processes, from that which does not, and is defined by the capacity for Cell growth, growth, reaction to Stimu ...

''. (''Mainichi Graph'', from Asahi's rival ''Mainichi Shinbunsha'', was similar.) The last regular issue of the magazine is dated 13 October 2000.

References

*Shirayama Mari. "Major Photography Magazines". In ''The History of Japanese Photography'', ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. . pp. 378–85. pp. 379–80. *Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). ''Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi'' (日本の写真・カメラ雑誌). Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (日本写真史概説, "An outline history of photography in Japan"). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. . pp. 38–9.

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