Yomiuri Shimbun
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Yomiuri-TOKYO Office |
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Yomiuri YC |
The Yomiuri Shimbun (読売新聞) is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. Founded in 1874, it is the world's largest newspaper, circulating well over 10 million copies daily. The Guinness Book of World Records credits the Yomiuri with the largest newspaper circulation in the world, having a combined morning and evening circulation of 14,323,781 throughout January 2002. The paper is printed twice a day and in several different local editions. Among Japan's three biggest dailies, it has the most rightist/nationalist editorial position.
Yomiuri also publishes The Daily Yomiuri, Japan's largest English-language newspaper. As a supplement to the daily edition, a weekly newsmagazine – The Yomiuri Weekly – is circulated. It also publishes the daily Hochi Shimbun, a sport-specified daily newspaper, as well as weekly and monthly magazines and books.
The Yomiuri Shimbun is also known as the de facto financial patron of the baseball team Yomiuri Giants and the soccer team Tokyo Verdy 1969.
See also: Japanese media
Japan is one of the world's leading countries in terms of daily newspaper sales per 1,000 adults. The chart below shows how Japanese newspaper sales compare to those of other countries.
In a worldwide comparison of newspapers with large circulations, Japan's major newspapers lead. They represent a powerful medium from a global perspective. The chart below shows the daily circulation for the Yomiuri Shimbun as compared to other major Japanese and international papers.
Sources: World Association of Newspapers (2004) ABC (average January-June,2004) for Japanese newspapers
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Showa Era CD-ROM |
In November 1999, The Yomiuri Shimbun released a
CD-ROM titled "The Yomiuri Shimbun in the
Meiji Era," which provides searchable archives of news articles and images from the period that have been digitalized from microfilm. This is the first time a newspaper has made it possible to search digitalized images of newspaper pictures and articles as they appeared in print.
Subsequent CD-ROMs, "The Taisho Era," "The prewar Showa Era I" and "The prewar Showa era II," were completed eight years after the project was first conceived. "Postwar Recovery," the first part of a postwar Showa Era series that includes newspaper stories and images until 1960, is on the way.
The system of indexing each newspaper article and image makes the archives easier to search, and the CD-ROMs have been well received by users as a result.
This digital resource is available in most major academic libraries in the United States.
*Tokyo Office
:1-7-1, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
*Osaka Office
:5-9, Nozakicho, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
*West Japan Office
:1-16-5, Akasaka, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
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Yomiuri Giants (読売巨人軍)
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Nippon Television Network Corporation (日本テレビ放送網株式会社, Nickname: Nittele (日テレ))
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Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation (讀賣テレビ放送株式会社, Nickname: Yomiuri TV (よみうりテレビ))
*Yomiuri Land (よみうりランド)
*Yomiuri Advertising Agency (also known as "Yomiko"; familiar to Americans as a producer of
anime)
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Yomiuri Shimbun Online (Japanese)*
Daily Yomiuri Online (English)*
GuinnessworldRecords.com - Highest Daily Newspaper Circulation*
Yomiuri Advertising Agency (Japanese)
