Popeye (magazine)
| Editor in Chief | Takahiro Kinoshita |
|---|---|
| Categories | Men's fashion magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Magazine House Ltd. |
| Year founded | 1976 |
| Country | Japan |
| Based in | Tokyo |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | Popeye |
Popeye is a monthly fashion and men's magazine based in Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the oldest magazines featuring articles about men's fashion. Its tagline is “Magazine for City Boys”.[1][2] The magazine is considered to be the Japanese version of Nylon magazine.[3]
History and profile
Popeye was started in 1976 as a male version of an an, a women's magazine.[1][4][5] The publisher is Magazine House Ltd., a Tokyo based publishing company.[6][7] The company, which is also the founder of the magazine, was previously named Heibun Shuppan.[8] The magazine was formerly published on a biweekly basis.[9] It is now published on a monthly basis.[6] It focuses on fashion[1] and its content mostly is about clothes, bags, shoes and accessories.[10] It targets young educated urban men.[6] Takahiro Kinoshita is the editor-in-chief of the magazine, which was redesigned in 2012.[2]
Popeye has several sister publications, including an an, Brutus and Croissant.[6] In 2013 the magazine and Brutus received best magazine award.[11]
In 1999 Popeye's circulation was 220,000 copies.[12]
References
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- 1 2 Matthew Klassen. "Takahiro Kinoshita". Public Pool. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ "I Kid You Not….. Some of the Best Men's Magazines in Japan". The Sartorialist. 11 December 2008. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ Barbara Németh (2014). "Masculinities in Japan" (PDF). Filozofická fakulta. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ Brian Moeran (1996). A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets. University of Hawaii Press. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-8248-1873-9. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "Popeye". Japanese Streets. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ Fiona Wilson (November 2015). "Press ahead". Monocle. 9 (88). Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ Keiko Tanaka (May 2003). "The language of Japanese men's magazines: young men who don't want to get hurt" (PDF). The Sociological Review. 51 (S1). Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ Europa World Year. Taylor & Francis. 2004. p. 2357. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ Masafumi Monden (20 November 2014). Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-4725-8673-5. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ "The Fifth BEST MAGAZINE AWARD Winners Including BRUTUS and POPEYE Announced". Fashion Headline. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ↑ Shigeko Okamoto; Janet S. Shibamoto Smith (1 October 2004). Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology: Cultural Models and Real People. Oxford University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-19-029026-9. Retrieved 30 April 2016.