Shufu no Tomo (主婦の友, Housewife's Friend) was a Japanese monthly women's magazine based in Tokyo, Japan.
[6] The magazine was published monthly by Shufu no Tomo Co. Ltd. in Tokyo.
[6] At the same time its target audience was the mass market and lower-middle-class women.
[3] It covered articles about home management, including savings and birth control.
[7][14] Shufu no Tomo was one of four powerful and best-selling women's magazines in Japan in 1958.