Asahigraph September 1937: Japanese troops in North ChinaMarch 1951: Michiyo Kogure
Asahigraph (アサヒグラフ, Asahigurafu), 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 [1] 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.
References
Shirayama Mari. "Major Photography Magazines". In The History of Japanese Photography, ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN0-300-09925-8. 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. ISBN4-00-008381-3. pp. 38–9.
