Fujin Kōron

Fujin Kōron (婦人公論) (meaning Woman's Review in English) is a Japanese bi-weekly women's magazine published by Chūōkōron-Shinsha. It was founded under the concept of women's liberation and establishment of selfhood.^[1] It was first published in January 1916 (Taishō 5).^[2] It is one of the new intellectual feminist magazines in Japan during the 1910s.^[3]

Fujin Kōron

The first issue of Fujinkōron
Editor	Keiko Yokoyama (横山恵子)
Categories	Women's magazine
Frequency	Biweekly
Publisher	Chuokoron-Shinsha (中央公論新社)
Founded	1916
First issue	January 1916
Country	Japan
Based in	Tokyo
Language	Japanese
Website	http://www.fujinkoron.jp/

Notable works

Year	Author	Title
1923	Ryūnosuke Akutagawa	Saru kani gassen (猿蟹合戦, The Crab and the Monkey)
1932	Fusako Kushi	Memoirs of a Declining Ryukyuan Woman (Horobiyuku ryukyu-onna no shuki,滅びゆく琉球女の手記)
1936	Ineko Sata (as Ineko Kubokawa)	Crimson (Kurenai, くれなゐ)
1942	Osamu Dazai	December 8th (Jūnigatsu youka, 十二月八日)
1950	Yukio Mishima	Junpaku no yoru (純白の夜)
1959	Yukio Mishima	Bunshō dokuhon (文章読本)
1964	Yukio Mishima	The Music (Ongaku, 音楽)
1971-1972	Junichi Watanabe	Akan ni hatsu (阿寒に果つ)

See also

• Bluestocking (magazine)
• Fujin Gahō
• Shufu no Tomo
• Shōjo no Tomo
• Shōjo Sekai
• Shōjo Friend

References

1. "婦人公論 (advertisement)". Yomiuri Shimbun. 23 December 1915.
2. Ai Maeda (25 March 2004). Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. Duke University Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-8223-8562-7.
3. Mackie, Vera (8 August 2002). Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism, 1900-1937. Cambridge University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-521-52325-7.