''Cawaii!'' is a

fashion magazine Fashion journalism is a component of fashion media, with a focus on journalism, writing and photojournalism. Fashion journalists write about and critique fashion events and trends as well as cultivate and maintain relationships with stylists and ...

published in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

, the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

, and previously in

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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"
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 ...

'' Circulation peaked at 400,000 in 2000. The Chinese edition and the

ese edition were founded before the early 2000s, and the Thai 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

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