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One of the first kawaraban ever printed, depicting the fall of Osaka Castle, 17th century. Japanese newspapers began in the 17th century as yomiuri (読売, literally 'to read and sell') or kawaraban (瓦版, literally 'tile-block printing', referring to the use of clay printing blocks), which were printed handbills sold in major cities to commemorate major social gatherings or events.
The Asahi Shimbun is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan along with the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Chunichi Shimbun. [14] The newspaper's circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and 1.33 million for its evening edition as of July 2021, [ 15 ] was second behind that of the ...
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 ...
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 Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞, lit. ' Daily Newspaper ') is one of the major newspapers in Japan, published by The Mainichi Newspapers Co. [5] [6] In addition to the Mainichi Shimbun, which is printed twice a day in several local editions, Mainichi also operates an English-language news website called The Mainichi [7] (previously Mainichi Daily News, abbreviated MDN), and publishes a ...
Yomiuri Shimbun, a broadsheet in Japan credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world. Most modern newspapers [46] are in one of three sizes: Broadsheets: 600 mm × 380 mm (23 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 15 in), generally associated with more intellectual newspapers, although a trend towards "compact" newspapers is changing this.
The Sankei Shimbun (産経新聞, Sankei Shinbun), name short for Sangyō Keizai Shinbun (産業経済新聞, lit."Industrial and Economic News"), is a daily national newspaper [26] in Japan published by the Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd, ranking amongst the top five most circulated newspapers in Japan. [27]
The Yomiuri Shimbun Western Headquarter and the Yomiuri Giants became independent corporations and entirely owned by the Group. In addition, Yomiuri Shimbun Central Headquarter, which was operated by Yomiuri, was downgraded to the Chubu Branch under the Tokyo Headquarter due to a split merger.