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=__**Japanese Magazines**__=

Japanese magazines are a genre to Japanese publications and print. They are usually distributed weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.

Women's magazines typically highlight upon topics such as fashion, music, health and beauty. These magazines tend to have a section to act as self-help literature guiding the reader with tips, suggestions and how-to's. These magazines greatly impact social codes of women in Japan. Women's fashion magazines tend to incorporate western influences.
 * Women's Magazines**

This category of magazines discuss J-pop music related news and issues. They include a range of interviews with different celebrities and sometimes include pull-out posters. The Japanese [| Oricon] Charts publish their own magazine, "//Oricon Style//", this magazine is distributed weekly and highlights on current music industry related news such as; releases and rankings, as well as celebrity interviews.
 * Jpop Magazines**

With the growing popularity of anime in America, a few magazines have been developed for anime fans. One popular magazine called NewType, originally published in Japan, has now been translated into English for American readers. NewType contains new information on reciently released anime and manga series as well as music, video games, products, interviews and columns by experts. The magazine features the original right-to-left format when reading and comes with a DVD with trailers and episodes of anime series.
 * Anime/Manga Magazines**

Other sub-genres of Japanese Magazines include: >
 * Idol magazines
 * Television magazines
 * J-rock magazines
 * Life magazines
 * Fashion magazines

Within Fashion magazines there are further genres that cater to specific styles such as;
 * Gothic and Lolita fashion
 * Ladies fashion
 * Shibuya fashion
 * Street fashion
 * Young girl fashion
 * Young ladies fashion.

[|Vivi Magazine] - //Japanese Site// [|Oricon Blog] - //Japanese Site// [|NewType USA] - Japanese translated English Magazine
 * External Links**

[|Vivi Magazine] - //Japanese Site// (//vivi magazine image//) [|Jap Gift] - Online shop for magazines (//oricon style image//)
 * References**