Chunichi Shimbun

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The Chunichi Shimbun
Circulation
Morning edition: 2,047,850
Evening edition: 288,651
(Japan ABC, April 2021)
Websitewww.chunichi.co.jp Edit this at Wikidata
Headquarters of Chunichi Shimbun in Nagoya

The Chunichi Shimbun (中日新聞, Chūnichi Shinbun, Central Japan News) is a

Asahi Shimbun
.

This is Japan's second largest leftist newspaper. It is positioned as a representative newspaper of Nagoya.

It is also the owner of the Chunichi Dragons baseball team.

History

The newspaper was formerly known as Nagoya Shimbun.[

Chubu Nihon (now Chunichi Dragons) in 1946.[citation needed
]

Foreign correspondence network

The group has thirteen foreign bureaus. They are in New York City, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, Manila, and Bangkok.

Political position

The Chunichi Shimbun holds progressive views, and has political tendencies towards liberalism, social democracy and socialism.

It supported the

Reiwa period. Nagoya
, where the headquarters is located, is called the Democratic Kingdom (Minshu-Ōkoku, 民主王国).

The two prewar newspapers (Shin-Aichi and Nagoya Shimbun) were conservative in the Chunichi Shimbun, but the founder, Kissen Kobayashi, ran for the mayor of Nagoya in 1951 at the recommendation of the Japan Socialist Party (first rejected, 1952). It was elected in the year) and changed to a left-leaning newspaper supported by the Japan Socialist Party. The Tokyo Shimbun was once a right wing, but when it was acquired by the Chunichi Shimbun in 1964, it changed to a left-leaning newspaper.

Probably because of this, the mass media reforms led by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications under the LDP administration in the Showa era (

TV Kanagawa
are affiliated with the Chunichi Shimbun).

It was the only major newspaper against the

TPP
in a major newspaper. It holds a pro-labor union position.

Since the 2011

Fukushima nuclear disaster, it has taken an extremely strong anti-nuclear policy and publishes articles related to nuclear power every day.[citation needed
] It also has a branch office in Fukushima Prefecture (not officially issued).

As a media company, the Yomiuri Shimbun Group and the

, while the Chunichi Group is a liberal newspaper and has a deep relationship with the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.

The Asahi Shimbun had a close relationship with the Kōchikai, a moderate faction of the Liberal Democratic Party.

It opposes the revision of the constitution and the prime minister's visit to Yasukuni Shrine.[2]

This newspaper is skeptical of the death penalty.[3]

Group companies

Mass media

The following broadcasting stations are jointly funded by other major newspapers.

Sports

Others

See also

References

  1. ^ 株式会社中日新聞社, Kabushiki-gaisha Chūnichi Shinbunsha
  2. ^ "新聞を徹底比較!!(読売・朝日・毎日・日経・中日・産経)". 3 December 2017. Archived from the original on 1 April 2022.
  3. ^ 死刑を考えるシンポ 袴田巌さん出席:朝夕刊:中日新聞しずおか (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2019-12-21.

Further reading

  • De Lange, William (2023). A History of Japanese Journalism: State of Affairs and Affairs of State. Toyo Press. .

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