Tokyo Shimbun

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 3.5 million. As of July 2008, according to the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the average daily circulation of The Tokyo Shimbun's morning edition was 620,125 and its evening edition sold 309,387 copies daily.[1]

The Tokyo Shimbun
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBlanket (54.6 cm × 40.65 cm)
Owner(s)Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd.
PublisherTorao Ohshima
FoundedSeptember 25, 1884
LanguageJapanese
HeadquartersTokyo
CirculationMorning edition: 577,940
Evening edition: 271,430
(ABC Japan, average for July 2008)
Websitewww.tokyo-np.co.jp

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.

The newspaper has traditionally been seen as centrist, but following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, it has more recently become known for its investigative reporting and opposition to the positions of Shinzo Abe and the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan).[2]

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.

Staff

References
  1. "NSK's member news organizations in Chubu District with monthly average circulation for Apr 2007". Archived from the original on 2008-05-29. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
  2. http://www.fccj.or.jp/number-1-shimbun/item/632-just-doing-its-job-tokyo-shimbun-points-to-the-truth/632-just-doing-its-job-tokyo-shimbun-points-to-the-truth.html
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. "Meet the Japanese reporter asking more questions 'than she is supposed to'". The Independent. 14 July 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
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