Camera (Japanese magazine)

, or Ars Camera , "Arusu Kamera"), was one of the older and longer running of Japanese camera magazines. It was published by the company Ars.
History and profile.
The first issue of "Ars Camera" is dated April 1921: predating "Asahi Camera" by five years. With a mixture of photographs, material about cameras, and contests, it set a pattern for mainstream camera magazines that has continued to the present day. It managed to keep publishing despite the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, but from January 1941 was forced to merge with "Shashin Salon" , "Shashin Saron") and "Camera Club" (, "Kamera Kurabu") to form "Shashin Bunka" ().
"Camera" was quick to reemerge after the war, with an issue dated January 1946. For some years it was edited by Kineo Kuwabara. Its last issue was dated August 1956.