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Brutus (ブルータス) is a Japanese magazine devoted to pop culture, lifestyles, and culture in Tokyo, Japan by Magazine World.[1][2]

History and profile

Brutus was started in 1980.[3][4] The publisher is Tokyo-based company, Magazine House.[4] It has sister publications, an an, Popeye and Olive.[3][4] A popular magazine,[5] Brutus had a circulation of 88,543 as of May 2009 with a target audience of 20- to 50-year-old trend-conscious males.[6]

References

  1. ^ L. Erik Bratt (13 May 1992). "Clear sailing for some". The San Diego Union - Tribune.
  2. ^ David Holley (27 March 1995). "Japanese Guru". Los Angeles Times. He was interviewed sympathetically, for example, for an article on new religions published in the well-respected magazine Brutus in 1991.
  3. ^ a b "History of Magazines in Japan: 1867-1988". Kanzai. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  4. ^ a b c Fiona Wilson (November 2015). "Press Ahead". Monocle. No. 88. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  5. ^ "How-to guides ever popular with Japanese". The Pantagraph. Associated Press. 14 January 1991. "How-to magazines attract Japanese readers, who are always fearful of doing something different, by showing a standard of what people should be doing," said Masayoshi Kinjo, editor of the popular men's magazine Brutus.
  6. ^ "Brutus magazine seeks Saipan appeal for cartoon magazines". Saipan Tribune. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 4 November 2009.