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published in mostly

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and neighboring regions by Based in

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, one of Japanese three major metropolitan areas, it boasts the third circulation after the group newspaper Total

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and

The Asahi Shimbun is one of the four largest newspapers in Japan. Founded in 1879, it is also one of the oldest newspapers in Japan and Asia, and is considered a newspaper of record for Japan. Its circulation, which was 4.57 million for its morning edition and ...

. Even the Chunichi Shimbun alone exceeds the number of copies of the Sankei Shimbun. The newspaper is dominant in its region, with a market penetration approaching 60 percent of the population of

. The Chunichi Shimbun group also publishes the ''

Tokyo Shimbun ''The Tokyo Shimbun'' (東京新聞, ''Tōkyō Shinbun'', literally ''Tokyo Newspaper'') is a Japanese newspaper published by The Chunichi Shimbun Company. The group publishes newspapers under the brand name of The Tokyo Shimbun in the Tokyo Met ...

'', the ''Chunichi Sports'', and the ''Tokyo Chunichi Sports'' newspapers. While each newspaper maintains independent leadership and is considered a "separate" paper, the group's combined circulation in 2022 was 2,321,414, ranking third in Japan behind the ''

'' and the '' 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

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team.

History

The newspaper was formerly known as ''Nagoya Shimbun''. From 1936–1940 it owned the Japanese Baseball League team Nagoya Kinko. The paper acquired the Chubu Nihon (now Chunichi Dragons) in 1946.

Foreign Correspondence Network

The group has thirteen foreign bureaus. They are in

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, Washington, D.C.,

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, and

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Political position

The Chunichi Shimbun holds progressive views, and has political tendencies towards

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and

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. It supported the

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in the Showa period, the

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and

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in the

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, and the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan in the

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, 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 (

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) were treated coldly, and it was not possible to become a national newspaper and to have its own TV station in Kanto. No ( Tokyo 12 channel (currently

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) was acquired by the Nikkei, and currently independent stations in the Kanto region such as Tokyo Metropolitan Television and TV Kanagawa are affiliated with the Chunichi Shimbun). It was the only major newspaper against the Koizumi reforms, and the Asahi Shimbun and others agreed. Chunichi was the only one who opposed the TPP in a major newspaper. It is in a position to defend the labor unions. Since the 2011

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, it has taken an extremely strong anti-nuclear policy and publishes articles related to nuclear power every day. It also has a branch office in Fukushima Prefecture (not officially issued). As a media company, the Yomiuri Shimbun Group and the

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have a deep relationship with the conservative Liberal 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 has a close relationship with the

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, a moderate faction of the Liberal Democratic Party. It opposes the revision of the constitution and the prime minister's visit to

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. This newspaper is skeptical of the

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.https://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/shizuoka/tokai-news/CK2019112302000110.html 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

Group companies

Mass media

* Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting * Tokai Radio Broadcasting ** Tokai Television Broadcasting **

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** Toyama Television Broadcasting *

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* Mie Television * Biwako Broadcasting The following broadcasting stations are jointly funded by other major newspapers. * Television Aichi - The Nikkei invested * Hokuriku Asahi Broadcasting - Asahi Shimbun Company invested *

TV Shizuoka is a television network headquartered in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station, which began broadcasting on December 24, 1968, is an affiliate of Fuji News Network and Fuji Network System. History The main station (JOQH-TV; channel 35) was fou ...

invested *

Shizuoka Asahi Television Shizuoka can refer to: * Shizuoka Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture * Shizuoka (city), the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture * Shizuoka Airport * Shizuoka Domain, the name from 1868 to 1871 for Sunpu Domain, a predecessor of Shizuoka Prefecture ...

- Asahi Shimbun Company invested * Nagano Broadcasting Systems -

invested * Asahi Broadcasting Nagano - Asahi Shimbun Company invested * TV Hokkaido - The Nikkei and Hokkaido Shimbun invested

Sports

* Chunichi Dragons

Others

* Chunichi Eiga-sha

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1942 establishments in Japan Daily newspapers published in Japan Japanese-language newspapers Centre-left newspapers Left-wing newspapers Liberal media in Japan Social democratic media Social democracy in Asia Mass media in Nagoya Newspapers established in 1942 Progressivism in Japan Publications established in 1886