Aera (magazine)

*Aera*
	Cover of August 14•21, 2006 issue.
Categories	News, Photography (gravure)
Frequency	Weekly
First issue	May 1988
Company	Asahi Shimbun
Country	Japan
Based in	Osaka
Language	Japanese
Website	Digital Edition
ISSN	0991-8833
OCLC	1052629196

Aera, formerly known as Asahi Journal, is a Japanese weekly magazine printed in gravure, published by Asahi Shimbun. The magazine combines photographs and news stories. In May 1988, Aera replaced Asahi Journal with more weekly substance.

The cover story is called Person in Focus. Eiichirō Sakata takes cover photos for Aera, and since the person on the cover is the photographer, it is a self-portrait.

The title Aera is derived from the Latin word that means "era" in English, and a backronym 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 1998

May 11 issue - Meja
June 8 issue - Jean Reno
June 28 issue - Ricky Martin
August 3 issue - Joaquín Cortés
September 21 issue - James Turrell
November 2 issue - Yoshio Taniguchi
November 9 issue - Alek Wek
November 16 issue - Richard Branson
December 21 issue - Faye Wong

Issues of 1999

January 18 issue - Philippe Starck
January 25 issue - LeAnn Rimes
May 31 issue - Jewel
June 28 issue - Yayoi Kusama
November 15 issue - Haley Joel Osment
November 29 issue - Jane Birkin
December 13 issue - Alina Kabayeva
December 20 issue - Milla Jovovich

Issues of 2000

January 10 issue - Carly Fiorina
January 17 issue - Tatsuya Fujiwara
February 7 issue - Andrew Weil
February 14 issue - Carlos Ghosn
February 21 issue - Sergio García
February 28 issue - Daniel Keyes
March 13 issue - Gerhard Schröder
March 20 issue - Charlotte Church
March 27 issue - Yasser Arafat
April 17 issue - Yoshirō Mori
April 24 issue - Émilie Dequenne
May 8 issue - Ringo Shiina
May 29 issue - Rickson Gracie
June 12 issue - Robin Williams
July 31 issue - Enrique Iglesias
September 11 issue - Valery Gergiev
September 18 issue - Vladimir Putin
October 2 issue - Koji Murofushi
October 9 issue - Desmond Morris
October 23 issue - Nikita Mikhalkov
November 6 issue - Hideki Shirakawa
November 13 issue - Zhang Ziyi
December 4 issue - Jeff Bezos

Issues of 2001

January 8 issue - Tiger Woods
February 5 issue - Ibrahim Ferrer
March 5 issue - Hiroyasu Shimizu
March 19 issue - Koichi Wakata
March 26 issue - Vladimir Ashkenazy
April 16 issue - Ichiro Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Shinjo
April 23 issue - Kitarō
May 7 issue - Ian Thorpe
May 14 issue - Junichiro Koizumi
May 28 issue - Karrie Webb
June 11 issue - Christian Bale
June 18 issue - Naomi Kawase
June 25 issue - Yoshida Brothers
August 27 issue - Linus Torvalds
September 17 issue - Hironobu Sakaguchi
November 5 issue - Plácido Domingo
December 10 issue - Nina Ananiashvili

Issues of 2002

February 4 issue - Hamid Karzai
February 18 issue - Donald Keene
February 25 issue - John Cameron Mitchell
March 4 issue - José Carreras
March 25 issue - Muhammad Yunus
April 8 issue - Hideki Matsui
April 15 issue - Sepp Blatter
May 13 issue - Junichi Inamoto
May 20 issue - Morgan Freeman
June 3 issue - Alicia Keys
July 1 issue - Kelly Chen
July 8 issue - Tommy Lee Jones
July 22 issue - Romano Prodi
August 19 issue - Nicolas Cage
September 9 issue - Cai Guo-Qiang
September 23 issue - Mariko Mori
September 30 issue - Megumi Yokota
October 7 issue - John Woo
October 21 issue - Zico
October 28 issue - Koichi Tanaka
December 9 issue - Annika Sörenstam
December 22 issue - Leonardo DiCaprio

Issues of 2003

January 6 issue - Ayumi Hamasaki
February 17 issue - Jon Bon Jovi
April 14 issue - Astro Boy
June 2 issue - Yuta Tabuse
June 16 issue - Keanu Reeves
July 14 issue - t.A.T.u.
August 11 issue - Lisa Marie Presley
September 8 issue - Miuccia Prada
October 6 issue - Alice Walker
November 24 issue - Quentin Tarantino
December 22 issue - Riccardo Muti

Issues of 2004

January 5 issue - Hillary Clinton
January 19 issue - Paula Radcliffe
January 26 issue - Nigel Kennedy
February 9 issue - Shigetoshi Hasegawa
February 16 issue - Norah Jones
March 1 issue - Matthew Bourne
March 8 issue - Daniela Hantuchová
April 26 issue - Sofia Coppola
May 17 issue - Hiromi Uehara
July 5 issue - Won Bin
July 12 issue - Yūya Yagira
August 2 issue - Tobey Maguire
September 20 issue - Bill Clinton
October 4 issue - Lester R. Brown
October 18 issue - Jonny Wilkinson
October 30 issue - Kosuke Kitajima
November 8 issue - Ken Watanabe
November 29 issue - Lee Byung-hun
December 13 issue - Takuma Sato
December 20 issue - Simon Rattle
December 27 issue - Emmanuelle Béart

Issues of 2005

January 24 issue - Gwyneth Paltrow
January 31 issue - Andrew Lloyd Webber
February 21 issue - Colin Farrell
March 7 issue - Alain Ducasse
March 14 issue - Peter Schreier
May 23 issue - Hayley Westenra
July 11 issue - Jack Johnson
July 18 issue - Bruno Ganz
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 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
March 6 issue - Noel Gallagher
March 13 issue - Toots Thielemans
March 27 issue - Wangari Maathai
April 10 issue - Kotaro Oshio
April 24 issue - Masahiko Fujiwara
May 29 issue - James Blunt
July 3 issue - Juanes
October 23 issue - Paula Creamer
November 13 issue - Dominique Perrault
December 4 issue - Bill Viola
December 11 issue - Roger Federer
December 25 issue - Beyoncé Knowles

Issues of 2007

January 22 issue - Desmond Tutu
January 29 issue - Michelle Wie
February 19 issue - Al Gore
March 12 issue - George Soros
March 19 issue - Steve Chen, Chad Hurley
April 23 issue - Rinko Kikuchi
June 4 issue - Kirsten Dunst
August 6 issue - M.I.A.
November 19 issue - Takashi Murakami
December 3 issue - Raul Midón

Issues of 2008

March 17 issue - Jude Law
May 12 issue - Namie Amuro
June 23 issue - B'z
July 14 issue - Diablo Cody
November 10 issue - Masumi Kuwata

Issues of 2009

January 16 issue - Daisuke Matsuzaka
March 19 issue - Hidetoshi Nakata
April 27 issue - Liam Gallagher
August 3 issue - Lady Gaga
August 17 issue - Richard Gere

References

External links

Digital Edition of AERA (in Japanese)