[ASA delivery] AERA September 15, 2025.
AERA September 15, 2025 issue
Price: ¥600 (tax included)
Cover: Toshinobu Kubota ● Singer/songwriter
Release date: September 8, 2025
Front cover
“Working Parents' Junior High School Entrance Exams”
Frontline
Taking on the challenge with our family's “Exam Axis”
“Flexible without overreacting” is the 2021 style
Full-time dual income households are entering the market / Shortened hours and staggered work hours are used / Husband's involvement is important
Know-how
Manga knowledge helps students pass the exam, recommended by Kyoko Annami
Testimonials
Pride and Regret Carved Out at Age 12: The Realities of Junior High School Entrance Exams
Comedy duo “Kagaya” Soya Gaya / Former Japanese swimming champ Hanae Ito / TBS announcer Takayuki Hasumi
Politics
The Exquisite “Secret Flavor” of Ishiba-style Curry
United States
Suicide of 16-year-old at ChatGPT: Parents sue OpenAI, Inc. Incidents
Look Back and Be Alert How to Spot a Stranger Following You
Economy
Why the “Retro Game” Boom Now
Reading the Times
A Place for People with Disabilities to Shine Together is in Crisis
The “Miracle” Camp on a Deserted Island in the Seto Inland Sea: The Background to the Decision to Close It This Summer
Interviews
Toshinobu Kubota: A fashion trend is not something to be ridden
40 years of progress / A message of “relax and take it easy”
Sports
Miura in the world, on her way to her first medal
World Championships in Athletics Tokyo will start soon
Ryuji Miura's “Betsuden” spurt / Feel the new history in real time / Interview with Mizuki Noguchi
Entertainment
Picture books and Yose are enjoyed by all Harufutei Ichinosuke & Kitchen Minoru
Food
Pickles are good in the hot fall weather. You can eat refreshingly and vegetables last longer
The origin of the top
Katsuhiko Harada, President, Nihon Heat Source Systems Happiness of each person comes first
International
Living Together without Walls Miu Sakamoto & Yasunori Kawakami
Two years soon since the Gaza clashes / Talking about the Palestine/Israel issue
Serials
AERA Which way? How much would you buy this year's “new rice”?
Women
[Women x Work] “I will not fail” in my parents' divorce
Serials
Natsunako Momota: Kono Michi Yureruba Guest Ai Tominaga
“I needed something called love to dispel that conflict” (Tominaga)
People on the cover
Toshinobu Kubota - singer/songwriter
Portrait of our times
Sumire Hirotsuru - violinist/ Kaori Hori
AERA-note
Editor-in-Chief's Keihaku
Popular Serials
eyes Tatsuki Uchida / Mikako Brady
Masaru Sato's Jissen News Juku
Sunatetsu Takeda This Week's Rut
Manabu Tauchi's Keizai no Mikata
Sadanobu Takemasu's Conbini Hyakuri no Michi wo Yuku
News na Shogi
Ashita nunchi Keraeiko
Hatiku Fuu Kankei
Cinema x SDGs
AERIAL
Aera Reading Club
Kotaro Kondo Review is a book"
This book by this person
Riken Komatsu
Aya Nishizaki's tidying up and life before / after
Shiitake mushrooms. Shiitake mushrooms at 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon. Masayuki Oki's Cat Sha Sha Sha this week
Emiko Inagaki's Afro Gaho
God of the workplace
Jane Sue's The other day, I met you, season 2
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