Heibon Punch
Heibon Punch (刊平凡パンチ) was a Japanese weekly men's magazine once published by Heibon Shuppan (current Magazine House). It was first published on April 28, 1964, and published until 1988. The magazine featured articles on lifestyle, fashion, sports, political issues and sex,[1] rivaling with Weekly Playboy, launched two years later.
| Categories | Men's magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | Heibon Shuppan / Magazine House |
| First issue | 1964 |
| Final issue | 1988 |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Heibon Punch was influential in promoting American fashion trends to the Japanese male youth in the post World War II, such as the Ivy look.[2][3]
Some of Heibon Punch's collaborators were Yukio Mishima, Toshio Saeki[4] and Kyoko Okazaki.
Other magazines by the same publisher were Monthly Heibon Punch, the general weekly magazine Weekly Heibon, and the spinoff Heibon Punch for Girls (precursor to an an).
References
- "Press ahead - Issue 88 - Magazine". Monocle. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
- "The Climb of Ivy | W. David Marx". Lapham's Quarterly. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
- Smith, Martyn David (2016-07-02). "'A MAD age': Heibon Punch, student protest, the media and consumer society in Cold War Japan". Japan Forum. 28 (3): 337–359. doi:10.1080/09555803.2015.1102162. ISSN 0955-5803.
- Dazed (2013-01-11). "Toshio Saeki". Dazed. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.