Monthly Playboy

"Japanese Playboy" redirects here. For the weekly magazine, see Weekly Playboy.

Monthly Playboy

Categories	Men's magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	approx. 900,000 (1975), approx. 55,000 (final few years[1])
First issue	July 1975[2]
Final issue — Number	January 2009 408
Company	Shueisha
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Website	m-playboy.shueisha.co.jp

Monthly Playboy (月刊プレイボーイ, Gekkan Pureibōi^?) also known as Geppure (月プレ^?) or MPB was a franchise of Playboy magazine in Japan. Monthly Playboy ceased publication with the final January 2009 issue, due to a decline in readership.^[1][3]

Playmate Japan (1986-1993)

Playmate Japan (プレイメイト・ジャパン^?)^[4]

• 1986 - Shiho Masui, Emi Satō, Reiko Sugano
• 1987 -
• 1988 - Sayoko Kobayashi, Mari Kokubu, Mika Okuda
• 1989 - Momo Aida
• 1990 - Kurisu Aoki, Akio Horisaka, Sachiko Kurachi, Haruka Morimura, Madoka Sugawara, Rie Sugimoto
• 1991 - Misuteriasu K
• 1992 - Kana Aiba, Reira Misaki, Chise Tokuda
• 1993 - Mio Asai, Yoriko Ikuta, Yūko Sugimoto

References

1. ^ ^{a b} 土肥義則 (2009-06-02). "『週刊プレイボーイ』を悩ませていること……それは？" (in Japanese). Business Media Makoto. ITmedia. http://bizmakoto.jp/makoto/articles/0906/02/news003.html. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 
2. ^ "Yakudōki Shōwa 50 nen - 62 nen (1975 - 1987)" (in Japanese). Shueisha Shōshi. Shueisha. http://www.shueisha.co.jp/history/history5.html. Retrieved 2007-05-26. 
3. ^ "「月刊PLAYBOY（日本版）」休刊へ". J-CASTモノウォッチ. J-Cast. 2008-08-01. http://www.j-cast.com/mono/2008/08/01024459.html. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 
4. ^ "【1986年5月】日本初プレイメイト誕生、グラビア界に国際化の波". Ameba News. CyberAgent. 2007-05-12. Archived from the original on 2008-04-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20080430083710/http://news.ameba.jp/2007/05/4622.php. Retrieved 2010-08-08. 

External links

• Monthly Playboy
• Japanese Playboy Covers at PBCovers.com