Hokkaido Shimbun

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The Hokkaido Shimbun
Type Daily newspaper
Format Blanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)

Owner The Hokkaido Shimbun Press
Publisher Ikuo Kikuchi
Founded January 20, 1887
Language Japanese
Price Morning edition: 130 Yen/copy
Evening edition: 50 Yen/copy
Subscription: 3,925 Yen/month (Morining and evening edition)
Headquarters Sapporo
Circulation Morning edition: 1,223,184
Evening edition: 673,410
(Japan ABC, average for January-June 2005)

Website: www.hokkaido-np.co.jp
Headquarters of the Hokkaido Shimbun Press in Sapporo.
Headquarters of the Hokkaido Shimbun Press in Sapporo.

The Hokkaido Shimbun (北海道新聞 Hokkaidō Shinbun?), which is often abbreviated as Doshin (道新 Dōshin?), is a Japanese language daily newspaper published mainly in Hokkaidō, Japan by The Hokkaido Shimbun Press (株式会社北海道新聞社 Kabushiki-gaisha Hokkaidō Shinbunsha?). As of November 2006, its morning edition has a circulation of 1,208,175.[1] It was first published in Sapporo in 1887.

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  1. ^ According to the circulation report to Japan Audit Bureau of Circulations, on (Japanese) Hokkaido Shimbun's corporate profile.

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