Seventeen (Japanese magazine)

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Seventeen

Cover of the February 2010 issue, featuring Mirei Kiritani
Categories	Fashion
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	327,334 (2008)[1]
Publisher	Shueisha
First issue	1967
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Website	https://hpplus.jp/seventeen

Seventeen (Japanese: セブンティーン, Hepburn: Sebuntīn) is a monthly Japanese fashion magazine for female teenagers published by Shueisha.

Launched in 1967 as a weekly magazine based on the original American Seventeen, the magazine changed the name to SEVENTEEN in 1987, and to Seventeen in 2008.

Since the late 1990s, Seventeen has been the highest-selling teenage fashion magazine in Japan,^[2] and has featured its exclusive teenage models as ST-Mo (STモ - Seventeen Model).^{[3][user-generated source]} Seventeen is very sought after among models (teenage models) because being featured on the magazine especially on its cover and certain pages, strongly helps them to get high-quality endorsements and prestigious contracts.^{[citation needed]} Well-known former Seventeen models include Megumi Asaoka, Keiko Kitagawa, Nana Eikura, Mirei Kiritani, Rie Miyazawa, Anna Tsuchiya, Hinano Yoshikawa, and Emi Suzuki.