Asahi Camera
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" ().