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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Blanket (54.6 cm × 40.65 cm) |
| Owner(s) | Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd. |
| Publisher | Uichirō Ohshima |
| Founded | September 1942 (Chubu-Nippon Shimbun) March 1886 (Shin-Aichi and Nagoya Shimbun) |
| Political alignment | Centre-left to left-wing Social democracy Liberalism (Japanese) Progressivism |
| Language | Japanese |
| Headquarters | Nagoya |
| Circulation | Morning edition: 1,747,829 Evening edition: 202,726 (JapanABC, december 2023) |
| Price | Morning edition: 130Yen/copy Evening edition: 50 Yen/copy Subscription: 3,925 Yen/month (Morning and evening edition) |
| Website | www |
TheChunichi Shimbun (中日新聞,Chūnichi Shinbun; Central Japan News) is a Japanese daily "broadsheet" newspaper published in mostlyAichi Prefecture and neighboring regions byChunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd.[1] Based inNagoya, one of the three major Japanese metropolitan areas, it boasts the third highest circulation after the group newspapers theYomiuri Shimbun andThe Asahi Shimbun. Even the Chunichi Shimbun alone exceeds the number of copies of theSankei Shimbun. The newspaper is dominant in its region, with a market penetration approaching 60 percent of the population ofAichi Prefecture. The Chunichi Shimbun group also publishes theTokyo Shimbun, theChunichi Sports, and theTokyo Chunichi Sports newspapers. While each newspaper maintains independent leadership and is considered a "separate" paper, the group's combined circulation in 2024 was 2,274,583, ranking third in Japan behind theYomiuri Shimbun and theAsahi Shimbun.
TheChunichi Shimbun is Japan's second largest leftist newspaper.[citation needed] It is positioned as a representative newspaper of Nagoya.
It is also the owner of theChunichi Dragons baseball team.
The newspaper was formerly known asNagoya Shimbun.[citation needed] From 1936 to 1940 it owned theJapanese Baseball League teamNagoya Kinko.[citation needed] The paper acquired theChubu Nihon (now Chunichi Dragons) in 1946.[citation needed]
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, andBangkok.
The Chunichi Shimbun holds progressive views, and has political tendencies towards liberalism,social democracy andsocialism.
It supported theJapan Socialist Party in theShowa period, theDemocratic Party of Japan andSocial Democratic Party (Japan) in theHeisei period, and theConstitutional Democratic Party of Japan in theReiwa period.
The two prewar newspapers (Shin-Aichi and Nagoya Shimbun) were conservative in the Chunichi Shimbun, but the founder,Kissen Kobayashi, ran for themayor 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 (1955 system) were treated coldly, and it was not possible to become a national newspaper and to have its own TV station inKanto. No (Tokyo 12 channel (currentlyTV Tokyo) was acquired bythe Nikkei, and currently independent stations in the Kanto region such asTokyo Metropolitan Television andTV Kanagawa are affiliated with the Chunichi Shimbun).
It was the only major newspaper against theKoizumi reforms, and the Asahi Shimbun and others agreed. Chunichi was the only one who opposed theTPP in a major newspaper. It holds a pro-labor union position.
Since the 2011Fukushima nuclear accident, it has taken a stronganti-nuclear policy.[citation needed] It also has a branch office in Fukushima Prefecture (not officially issued).
As a media company, the Yomiuri Shimbun Group and theFujisankei Communications Group have a deep relationship with the conservativeLiberal Democratic Party, 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 theKōchikai, a moderate faction of the Liberal Democratic Party.
It opposes the revision of the constitution and the prime minister's visit toYasukuni Shrine.[2]
This newspaper is skeptical of thedeath penalty.[3]
The following broadcasting stations are jointly funded by other major newspapers.
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