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The Tokyo Shimbun (東京新聞, Tōkyō Shinbun, lit. '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 ...
The Asahi Shimbun. Asahi Shimbun Osaka Head Office is on the 9th to the 12th floors. The Asahi Shimbun (朝日 新聞, IPA: [asaçi ɕiꜜmbɯɴ], lit. 'morning sun newspaper', English: Asahi News) is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a ...
Some newspapers publish as often as two times a day (morning and evening editions) while others publish weekly, monthly, quarterly, or even yearly. The five leading national daily newspapers in Japan are the Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun and the Nikkei Shimbun. [1] The first two are generally considered ...
The first dailies were established in Japan in 1870. [1] In 2018 the number of the newspapers was 103 in the country.. Below is a list of newspapers published in Japan. (See also Japanese newspapers.)
The hundred man killing contest (百人斬り競争, hyakunin-giri kyōsō) was a newspaper account of a contest between Toshiaki Mukai (3 June 1912 – 28 January 1948) and Tsuyoshi Noda (1912 – 28 January 1948), two Japanese Army officers serving during the Japanese invasion of China, over who could kill 100 people the fastest while using a sword.
The history of the Mainichi Shimbun began with the founding of two papers during the Meiji period. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun was founded first, in 1872. The Mainichi claims that it is the oldest existing Japanese daily newspaper [citation needed] with its 136-year history. The Osaka Mainichi Shimbun was founded four years later, in 1876.
In November 1999, the Yomiuri Shimbun released a CD-ROM titled "The Yomiuri Shimbun in the Meiji Era," which provided searchable archives of news articles and images from the period that have been digitalized from microfilm. This was the first time a newspaper made it possible to search digitalized images of newspaper pictures and articles as ...
Circulation. 44,000. ISSN. 0447-5763. OCLC number. 21225620. Website. www.japantimes.co.jp. The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is published by The Japan Times, Ltd. (株式会社ジャパンタイムズ, Kabushiki gaisha Japan Taimuzu), a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.