As the weekly magazine market shrinks, Weekly Asahi, which was launched more than 100 years ago and is considered Japan's oldest comprehensive weekly magazine, will be closed at the end of May this year.
"Weekly Asahi" was first published in 1922 in 1922 and is considered to be Japan's oldest general weekly magazine. It covers not only politics and social issues but also a wide range of themes such as Ryotaro Shiba's historical travelogue and "Kaido wo Yuku". I was.
According to Asahi Shimbun Publishing, the publisher of "Weekly Asahi," the circulation exceeded 1 million in the 1950s, but the average circulation in December last year was about 74,000. While the number of sales and advertising costs in the market are shrinking, we decided to suspend publication at the end of May this year.
Asahi Shimbun Publishing commented, ``We would like to thank our readers for their great patronage over the past 100 years. increase.
In addition, the journalism magazine "Journalism" published by Asahi Shimbun will be suspended after the March issue of this year.