キング 1930.03
大日本雄弁会講談社
New to the public domain this year: published in 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States from 1 January 2026 at the latest, 95 years after its publication (earlier, if its copyright was never renewed). The Copyright Office's Circular 15A
Kingu (キング “King”) was the mass-market monthly magazine launched in 1925 under the direction of Kōdansha publishing company founder Noma Seiji (野間清治) and renamed Fuji (富士) in 1943 under the wartime language policy. Designed as a broadly accessible “national mass magazine” rather than a specialist literary, political, or women’s periodical, it combined fiction, biography, moral essays, practical knowledge, humor, visual features, songs, games, and reader-participation columns. Its importance lies in its extraordinary reach: Kingu became the first Japanese magazine to surpass one million copies in circulation and was probably the most widely read general-interest magazine in Japan until the end of World War II. As a source, it is especially valuable for studying interwar mass culture, commercial publishing, household reading, popular nationalism, moral education, entertainment, and the formation of a shared “national” reading public before and during Japan’s wartime mobilization. Contents (目次): 表紙・口絵・グラフ / さざえ 表紙 / ワシントン 世界史上の華絵巻 / 畠の囁き 漫彫・原色版 / 領主と八兵衛 キング教訓画譜 / 悪魔の塔 二色写真版 / 文明は空へ / 婦人服の今昔 / うららか / 御所と離宮 / 建設をめざして / 私は三つ / 総てが生活の為めに / 健気な未亡人 / 広告術はどこまで / 力くらべ / 春浅し / 猛襲乱闘 / 市場巡礼 / 電気の力 / トルストイとその訓言 / 汲めども尽きぬ心の泉 / どうしたら抜擢されるか / 日本人の強味 / 八代先生にお目にかゝるの記 / 見よ、この責任を守る人々 / 雄弁十訓 / フアン百態 漫画 / 面白い数字の話 / 楽しき家 民謡 / 踏切番の奇智 途上美談 / 愛犬チヤリの死 動物美談 / キング大講堂 / 誰でも聞いて置きたい問題、知つて置きたい知識 / 修養に最も必要な点は何か / 月の世界はどんな風か / 大人物になる心掛けは何か / 全日本人一人平均百円の借金 / 小説と実生活の関係 / 農村を振興させる方策如何 / 現代の婦人問題とその運動 / 政党は何故必要か /…
- Series
- キング 1930
- Language
- Japanese
- Collection
- The Magazine Rack
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Internet Archive