Tokyo Shimbun

Tokyo Shimbun

Infobox_Newspaper
name = The Tokyo Shimbun
type = Daily newspaper
format = Blanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)
foundation = September 25, 1884
price = Morning edition: 100 Yen/copy
Evening edition: 40 Yen/copy
Subscription: 3,250 Yen/month (Morning and evening edition)
owners = Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd.
publisher = Torao Ohshima
language = Japanese
circulation = Morning edition: 577,940
Evening edition: 271,430
(ABC Japan, average for July 2008)
headquarters = Tokyo
website = [http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/ 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 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 [Cite web |title=NSK's member news organizations in Chubu District with monthly average circulation for Apr 2007 |url=http://www.pressnet.or.jp/english/member/chubu.htm#Anchor-CHUNICH-50473 |accessdate=2008-10-04] .

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. The newspaper merged with another Nagoya-based newspaper in 1942 and took its current form by then merging with a Tokyo-based paper in 1967.

Foreign Correspondence Network

The group has thirteen foreign bureaus. They are in New York, Washington D.C., London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, Manila and Bangkok.

References

External links

* [http://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/ Tokyo Shimbun (Japanese)]


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