Japanese pictorial magazine (1923–2000)
, also known as the Asahi Picture News, was a Japanese weekly pictorial magazine that ran from 1923 until 2000.
"Asahigraph" started on 25 January 1923 as a daily feature from Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of "Asahi Shimbun" and soon also of "Asahi Camera"); 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.
"Asahigraph" survived World War II and reemerged as something of a Japanese equivalent of the U.S. magazine "Life". ("Mainichi Graph", from Asahi's rival "Mainichi Shinbunsha", was similar.) The last regular issue of the magazine is dated 13 October 2000.
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