Akai tori (赤い鳥, Red Bird) was a Japanese children's literary magazine published between 1918 and 1936 in Tokyo, Japan.

The magazine has a significant role in establishing dowa and doyo, which refer to new versions of children's fiction, poetry, and songs.

[1] In addition, it was pioneer of literary movements, doshinshugi[1] and jidō bungaku (juvenile literature).

[2] Akai tori published stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, including Spider's Thread and Tu Tze-Chun.

[7] In addition, Suzuki translated Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper into Japanese and published it in Akai tori in 1925.