Yomiuri Shimbun
Front page of the Yomiuri Shimbun from July 17, 2006, following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1695 two days prior | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Blanket (54.6 by 40.65 centimeters (21.50 in × 16.00 in)) |
| Owner(s) | The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings |
| Founded | November 2, 1874[1] |
| Political alignment | Center-right[2] to right-wing[3] Conservatism (Japanese)[4] Moderate conservatism[5] |
| Language | Japanese |
| Headquarters | Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan |
| Country | Japan |
| Circulation | 5,773,114 (July–December 2024)[6] |
| Website | www |
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The Yomiuri Shimbun (讀賣新聞)[7] is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities.[8] It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are The Asahi Shimbun, the Chunichi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. It is headquartered in Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.[9]
It is a newspaper that represents Tokyo and generally has a conservative orientation. It is one of Japan's leading newspapers, along with the Osaka-based liberal (Third Way) Asahi Shimbun and the Nagoya-based social democratic Chunichi Shimbun. This newspaper is well known for its pro-American stance among major Japanese media.[10]
It is published by regional bureaus, all of them subsidiaries of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest media conglomerate by size behind Sony,[11][12] which is privately held by law and wholly owned by present and former employees and members of the Matsutarō Shōriki family. The Holdings has been part-owned by the family since Matsutarō Shōriki's purchase of the newspaper in 1924 (currently owning a total of 45.26% stock); despite its control, the family is not involved in its executive operations.
Founded in 1874,[13] the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world as of 2019,[14][15] having a morning circulation of 5.7 million as of December 2024.[6] The paper is printed twice a day and in several different local editions.
The Yomiuri Shimbun established the Yomiuri Prize in 1949. Its winners have included Yukio Mishima and Haruki Murakami.
- ^ "紙面の変遷、世相を映す". The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved March 30, 2023.
- ^ Patrick Finney (2010). Remembering the Road to World War Two: International History, National Identity, Collective Memory.
- ^ "Yomiuri Shimbun Apologizes on Comfort Women Issue". The Diplomat. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Gilbert Rozman, ed. (2010). U.S. Leadership, History, and Bilateral Relations in Northeast Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 134. ISBN 9781139492034.
Conservative Yomiuri Shimbun also organized a special task force to ...
- ^ Daniel M. Kliman, ed. (2014). Fateful Transitions: How Democracies Manage Rising Powers, from the Eve of World War I to China's Ascendance. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 122. ISBN 9780812290295.
... observers in Japan identified other obstacles to China's continued economic growth. Yomiuri Shimbun, a moderately conservative newspaper and ...
- ^ a b 読売新聞のメディアデータ [Yomiuri Shimbun Media Data]. The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 2020. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
- ^ The name is in Kyujitai. In Shinjitai, it is written as 読売新聞
- ^ "Yomiuri printing factories (印刷工場)". Archived from the original on 31 August 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ "組織体制" Archived August 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
- ^ Linus Hagstrom, ed. (2015). Identity Change and Foreign Policy: Japan and its 'Others'. Routledge. p. 101. ISBN 9781317394860.
It is particularly interesting to note that the more left-leaning Asahi Shimbun (333 articles) carried a higher number of articles and headlines than the conservative (but moderate and pro-American) Yomiuri Shimbun, and actually comes ...
- ^ "Overview of Yomiuri Group Power". Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
- ^ The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings is the largest media conglomerate by revenue in Japan, while Sony is Japan's largest media conglomerate by worldwide media/entertainment revenue.
- ^ John Horne (2005). "Sport and the Mass Media in Japan" (PDF). Sociology of Sport Journal. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ "Dainik Bhaskar is world's third-largest circulated newspaper with 4.3 mn copies: WAN IFRA". Best Media Info. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
- ^ Schell, Orville (1 January 2007). "Japan's war guilt revisited". WAN. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved 31 December 2006.