Asahigraph

{{Short description|Japanese pictorial magazine (1923–2000)}}

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{{nihongo|Asahigraph|アサヒグラフ|Asahigurafu}}, also known as the Asahi Picture News, was a Japanese weekly pictorial magazine that ran from 1923 until 2000.

Asahigraph started on 25 January 1923 [https://books.google.com/books?id=I7L4F8Z4crgC&dq=%22Asahigraph%22+January+1923&pg=RA12-PA22 "Picture Daily in Tokyo"], Editor & Publisher magazine, February 24, 1923, p.23 as a daily feature from Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of Asahi Shimbun and soon also of Asahi Camera); this ran until 1 September 1923 when it was stopped by the major earthquake in Tokyo. It was back as a weekly from 14 November. In 1926 it was joined by Asahi Graphic (朝日グラフィック) which the Osaka branch of Asahi Shinbunsha had been publishing since 2 January 1921.

Asahigraph survived World War II and reemerged as something of a Japanese equivalent of the U.S. magazine Life. (Mainichi Graph, from Asahi's rival Mainichi Shinbunsha, was similar.) The last regular issue of the magazine is dated 13 October 2000.