Tokyo Shimbun
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Blanket (54.6 cm × 40.65 cm) |
Owner(s) | Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd. |
Publisher | Uichirō Ohshima |
Founded | September 25, 1884 |
Political alignment | Progressivism Social liberalism Social democracy Environmentalism |
Language | Japanese |
Headquarters | Tokyo |
Circulation | Morning edition: 407,777 Evening edition: 133,708 (ABC Japan, average for June 2021) |
Website | www.tokyo-np.co.jp |
The Tokyo Shimbun (東京新聞, Tōkyō Shinbun, literally Tokyo Newspaper) is a Japanese newspaper published by The Chunichi Shimbun Company. The group publishes newspapers under the brand name of The Tokyo Shimbun in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and under The Chunichi Shimbun in the Nagoya Metropolitan Area. The group's combined daily morning circulation is 2.3 million. As of July 2021, according to the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the average daily circulation of The Tokyo Shimbun's morning edition was 407,777 and its evening edition sold 133,708 copies daily.[1]
The Chunichi Shimbun Company's headquarters is in Nagoya, Japan. Its total workforce number is 3,458. The Tokyo Shimbun newspaper is also the owner of the Chunichi Dragons, a professional Japanese baseball team.
History
The group dates back to 1888 when a regional newspaper was founded in Nagoya. In 1942, the newspaper merged with the Miyako Shimbun, which was another Nagoya-based newspaper. The publication took its current form by merging with a Tokyo-based paper in 1967.
Foreign correspondence network
The group has thirteen foreign bureaus. They are in New York City, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, Manila, and Bangkok.
Notable staff
References
- ^ "東京新聞|MEDIA|中日新聞社広告局メディアガイド". adv.chunichi.co.jp. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
- ^ Rich, Motoko (5 July 2019). "This Reporter Asks a Lot of Questions. In Japan, That Makes Her Unusual". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-27 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ McCurry, Justin (27 December 2019). "Isoko Mochizuki, the 'troublesome' thorn in Shinzo Abe's side". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-27 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ "Meet the Japanese reporter asking more questions 'than she is supposed to'". The Independent. 14 July 2019. Archived from the original on 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
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