''Cawaii!'' is a
fashion magazine
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published in
Taiwan
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,
People's Republic of China
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,
Thailand
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, and previously in
Japan
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.
History and profile
Launched as a monthly
gal fashion magazine targeted at women in their teens in Japan in March 1996, ''Cawaii!'' grew to be one of Japan's major gal magazines, and spawned its two sister magazines, ''
S Cawaii!'' and ''
Hanachu''.
["Spark for the gal boom, 'Cawaii!', suspends publication"](_blank)
13 February 2009, ''Oricon News
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nove ...
'' Circulation peaked at 400,000 in 2000.
The
Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
edition and the
Taiwan
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ese edition were founded before the early 2000s, and the
Thai
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* Of or from Thailand, a country in Southeast Asia
** Thai people, the dominant ethnic group of Thailand
** Thai language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken mainly in and around Thailand
*** Thai script
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edition was founded in May 2004.
"Japanese 'Cawaii!' to Thai 'Naa Rak'"
, 15 October 2005, '' Woman Excite'' The original Japanese edition suspended publication in May 2009 due to declining circulation.
References
1996 establishments in Japan
2004 establishments in Thailand
2009 disestablishments in Japan
Defunct women's magazines published in Japan
Fashion magazines published in China
Fashion magazines published in Japan
Gyaru
Magazines established in 1996
Magazines established in 2004
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Magazines published in Taiwan
Magazines published in Thailand
Monthly magazines published in Japan
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