Asahi Shinbun

The Asahi Shimbun
First issue on 25 January 1879
TypeDaily newspaper
Company type: Private
FormatBroadsheet
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
Political alignmentCentre-left
Liberalism
HeadquartersNakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
CountryJapan
Circulation
  • Decrease 5,160,355 (2020)
  • Decrease 5,954,336 (2018)
  • Decrease 6,572,195 (2016)
  • 7,960,000 (2010)
Websitewww.asahi.com (Japanese)
www.asahi.com/ajw (English)
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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.

Note

  1. ↑ "数字で見る朝日新聞". Asahi. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
  2. ↑ "Japan paper Yomiuri Shimbun retracts 'sex slaves' references". BBC News. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2020. In August the left-of-centre Asahi newspaper retracted a series of articles it had published about the comfort women issue based on the testimony of a Japanese author Seiji Yoshida.
  3. ↑ "The press in Japan - Gotcha". The Economist. 20 September 2014. 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 ...
  4. ↑ "Japan PM to overturn pacifist defence policy". The Guardian. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2020. The left-of-centre Asahi Shimbun accused Abe of abandoning Japan's postwar pacifism after minimal public debate.
  5. ↑ 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."
  6. ↑ "Japan's Asahi newspaper sacks editor over Fukushima report errors". Financial Times. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Asahi Shimbun". Britannica. The paper is known for its liberal and progressive views.
  8. ↑ Fackler, Martin (2016-05-27). "The Silencing of Japan's Free Press". Foreign Policy. 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.
  9. ↑ 朝日新聞媒体資料 Data File 2021 [Asahi Shimbun Media Resources Data File 2021] (PDF) (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun. 4 January 2021. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  10. ↑ "Strength of The Asahi Shimbun 2018" (PDF). The Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "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. Archived from the original on 2016-12-12. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  12. ↑ "全国紙の朝・夕刊別販売部数(単位：部)". Yomiuri. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011.

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