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For news junkies, Japan can seem a difficult place to get a fix. Often, major media outlets will all carry the same stories, with few variations between the reports that appear in the biggest-selling newspapers, television and online outlets.
Enter the weekly magazines. With a mix of politics, gossip and often porn, these publications, largely targeted at the male market, are the home of scoops, scandal and scantily clad women.
Politics and porn
Friday, a weekly that focuses on celebrity gossip, is one such magazine.
And while it has seen its sales decline to around 200,000 copies per issue, from a peak of 500,000-600,000 in the 1990s, the figures would still be the envy of most print media companies in other countries.
Jun Oyaizu, who has worked as an editor at Friday for eight years, says: “Friday magazine is a similar to America’s People. But in Friday there is much more than there is in People. Our readers get a combination of that magazine with something like Time and a music magazine.
“But magazines such as Time and Newsweek are very specific in their content. For Japanese weeklies, one magazine will include politics, economics, entertainment and porn. There are no magazines like this in the United States,” says Oyaizu....READ MORE
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