Asahi Shinbun

Asahi Shinbun (Morning Sun Newspaper) is a major newspaper in Japan. It is based in Osaka. It started in 1879. It is left-wing. It publishes a daily English-language edition online.

The Asahi Shimbun
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First issue on 25 January 1879
TypeDaily newspaper
Company type: Private
FormatBroadsheet[1]
Owner(s)Repurchased shares (25%)
Murayama family (21.02%; 10% through the KOSETSU Museum of Art)
Ueno family (total 14.22% by Shōichi Ueno's death in 2016)
TV Asahi (11.88%)
Toppan (7.31%)
Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdcorp (2.31%)
Founder(s)Murayama Ryōhei [ja]
Ueno Riichi [ja]
Founded25 January 1879
HeadquartersNakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
CountryJapan
Circulation
  • Decrease 5,160,355 (2020)[2]
  • Decrease 5,954,336 (2018)[3]
  • Decrease 6,572,195 (2016)[4]
  • 7,960,000 (2010)[5]
Websitewww.asahi.com (Japanese)
www.asahi.com/ajw (English)
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Asahi Shinbun Media

Note

  1. 数字で見る朝日新聞Asahi. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  2. No Title (in Japanese) (4 January 2021)The Asahi Shimbun. p. 7. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  3. Strength of The Asahi Shimbun 2018The Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  4. 朝日新聞、4年間で発行部数105万減の衝撃…新聞業界、存亡の危機突入へbiz-journal. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  5. 全国紙の朝・夕刊別販売部数(単位:部)Yomiuri. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  6. Japan paper Yomiuri Shimbun retracts 'sex slaves' references (28 November 2014)BBC News. Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  7. The press in Japan - Gotcha. 20 September 2014. https://www.economist.com/asia/2014/09/20/gotcha. Retrieved 21 February 2020. "The Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading left-of-centre newspaper, with a circulation of 7.3m, is battling for its reputation after a third embarrassing ...". 
  8. Japan PM to overturn pacifist defence policy. The Guardian (30 June 2014). Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  9. Saul J. Takahashi (2019). Civil and Political Rights in Japan: A Tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley. "... affiliated with the left of centre newspaper Asahi Shimbun, has been a particular target."
  10. Japan's Asahi newspaper sacks editor over Fukushima report errors (12 September 2014)Financial Times. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  11. Asahi Shimbun.
  12. Fackler, Martin (2016-05-27). "The Silencing of Japan's Free Press" (in en). Foreign Policy. https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/05/27/the-silencing-of-japans-free-press-shinzo-abe-media/. Retrieved 2020-03-05. "That announcement capped a difficult year-and-a-half for independent media that saw the largest liberal newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, subdued and other critical commentators removed from the airwaves.". 

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