Special Feature and Japan

special features: The special feature, with an abundance of pictures, offered maps of Japan showing routes on which one can possibly encounter bosozoku hot rodders, interviews with former gang members and articles introducing their unique fashions and neologism, according to Asahi Shimbun. In its March 2014 edition, Zhiri presented a special feature titled Soul of food, which introduced the daily menu of a Japanese family over a week. Introduced in January 2011, Zhiri" magazine regularly sells 50,000 to 100,000 copies each month, offering special features covering a wide spectrum of Japanese life, such as cats, manners and uniforms." Of the 29 topics that the magazine has featured so far, the August 2013 edition dedicated to motorcycle gangs seemed to draw much attention from Chinese fans of Japanese subculture. The intention of this magazine is to let Chinese people know more about Japan, so that they don’t need to become an extreme ‘anti-Japanese’ or 'pro-Japanese,’ said Jing Su, the 33-year-old founder and editor in chief of Zhiri. The 170-page, all-color magazine, priced at 35 yuan , mainly targets young people between the ages of 18 and 35. I don’t mind people choosing to become anti-Japanese after they become familiar with the country, but once you come to know Japan as it is, it will be difficult to one-sidedly develop hostility. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.