Asahi Graph

Asahi Graph (アサヒグラフ, Asahi gurafu) was a Japanese weekly pictorial magazine that ran from 1923 till 2000.

Asahi Graph started on 25 January 1923 as a daily feature from Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of Asahi Shinbun 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.

Asahi Graph survived the war and reemerged as something of a Japanese equivalent of the US magazine Life. (Mainichi Graph, from Asahi's rival Mainichi Shinbunsha, was similar.) The last regular issue of the magazine is dated 13 October 2000.

Links and sources

In English:

• Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. The History of Japanese Photography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8 Pp. 379–80.

In Japanese

• Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (日本写真史概説, An outline history of photography in Japan). (Supplementary 41st volume to the series Nihon no shashinka 日本の写真家.) Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008381-3. Pp. 38–9.