- Aera (magazine)
Infobox Magazine
title = Aera
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image_caption = Cover of August 14•21, 2006 issue.
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frequency = Weekly
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category =News ,Photography (gravure )
company = Asahi Shimbun
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firstdate = May 1988
country = Japan
language = Japanese
website = [http://www.zasshi.com/ZASSHI_SOKUHOU/data/aera.html Website]
issn ="Aera" is a Japanese weekly
magazine , printed ingravure , published by theAsahi Shimbun . The magazine combines photographs andnews stories. In May 1988, "Aera" replaced "Asahi Journal," a more substantial weekly.The cover story is called "Person in Focus".
Eiichirō Sakata takes cover photos for "Aera", but when the person on the cover is a photographer, it is a self-portrait.The title "AERA" is derived from the
Latin word that means "era " in English, and abackronym said to mean "Asahi" Shimbun Extra Research and Analysis.""Aera"'s advertisement in the "Asahi" features topical "
dajare " (word play ).People who have appeared in "Aera"'s cover story "Person in Focus"
"Issue number and names in Japanese and roman script."
Issues of
2005 *
November 7 issue -Rei Asami
*November 14 issue -Dan Gillmor
*November 21 extra issue -Soichi Noguchi
*November 28 issue -Natsuhiko Kyogoku
*December 5 issue -Eric E. Schmidt
*December 12 issue -Dardenne brothers
*December 19 issue -Kaiji Moriyama
*December 26 issue -Li Yundi Issues of
2006 *
January 2 -9 issue -Kotooshu Katsunori
*January 16 issue -Nikolaus Harnoncourt
*January 23 issue -Asashoryu Akinori
*January 30 issue -Takafumi Horie
*February 6 issue -Aoi Miyazaki
*February 27 issue -Shizuka Arakawa
*April 10 issue -Kotaro Oshio
*April 24 issue -Masahiko Fujiwara ee also
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Asahi Shimbun External links
* [http://www.zasshi.com/ZASSHI_SOKUHOU/data/aera.html zasshi.com] Aera page (in Japanese)
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