Tokyo Shimbun

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

Owner	Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd.
Publisher	Torao Ohshima
Founded	September 25, 1884
Language	Japanese
Price	Morning edition: 100 Yen/copy Evening edition: 40 Yen/copy Subscription: 3,250 Yen/month (Morning and evening edition)
Headquarters	Tokyo
Circulation	Morning edition: 601,029 Evening edition: 295,154 (ABC Japan, average for January-June 2005)

Website: 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 2003, 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 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.