Shashin Shūhō
CategoriesPropaganda magazine
FrequencyWeekly
PublisherCabinet Intelligence Department
FounderCabinet Intelligence Department
Founded1938
First issue16 February 1938
Final issue
Number		11 July 1945
374–375
CountryJapan
Based inTokyo
LanguageJapanese

Shashin Shūhō (Japanese: 写真周报; Weekly Photographical Journal) was an illustrated propaganda magazine of the Cabinet Intelligence Department which was published in Japan between 1938 and 1945. It was one of the most successful propaganda publications of Japan.

History and profile

Shashin Shūhō was launched by the Cabinet Intelligence Department in 1938,[1] and its first issue appeared on 16 February 1938.[2] It was employed by the Japanese government for propaganda purposes[1] and featured the news about the Japan's war activities in World War II.[3] Its contents were accompanied by photographs[3] which were mostly taken by the Nippon Kōbō collaborators, including Ken Domon and Ihei Kimura.[4] The magazine came out weekly which reached the peak circulation level distributing 500,000 copies in 1943.[3] It folded after the publication of the issue 374–375 on 11 July 1945.[2]

The magazine issues have been archived by different institutions, including National Archives of Singapore[5] and the British Museum.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Daniel Hedinger (2017). "The Spectacle of Global Fascism: The Italian Blackshirt mission to Japan's Asian empire". Modern Asian Studies. 51 (6): 2018. doi:10.1017/S0026749X17000026. S2CID 148743045.
  2. 1 2 "A Window into the Early Showa Period". JACAR. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Shashin shūhō (Photographic Weekly Report; 1938–1945)". Merril C. Berman Collection. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Gennifer Weisenfeld (December 2000). "Touring Japan-as-Museum: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues". Positions. Asia Critique. 8 (3): 756. doi:10.1215/10679847-8-3-747. hdl:10161/7356. S2CID 144243227.
  5. ↑ "Japanese magazine "Shashin Shuho"". National Archives of Singapore. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  6. ↑ "Newspaper/periodical; photographic print". British Museum. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
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