is a
nonprofit
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cooperative
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news agency
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based in
Minato, Tokyo
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is also called Minato City in English.
It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka, Azabu and Shiba wards following Tokyo City's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Minato ward exhibits th ...
. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
s, and
radio
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and
television
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networks in
Japan
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. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million
subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business arm, established in 1972.
[Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). ''News agencies from pigeon to internet.'' Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 208. .] The subdivision Kyodo News International, founded in 1982, provides over 200 reports to international news media and is located in
Rockefeller Center
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,
New York City
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.
[
Their online news site is in ]Japanese
Japanese may refer to:
* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
, Chinese
Chinese can refer to:
* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of ...
( Simplified and Traditional
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), Korean
Korean may refer to:
People and culture
* Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula
* Korean cuisine
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl
**Korean dialects and the Jeju language
** ...
, and English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
.
The agency employs over 1,000 journalists and photographers, and maintains news exchange agreements with over 70 international media outlets.[
]Satoshi Ishikawa
is a generally masculine Japanese given name.
Possible writings
*哲, "intelligent, philosophy, clear"
*悟, "bodhi, enlightenment, apprehension"
*敏, "quick, sharp"
*智, "knowledge, wisdom"
*聡, "intelligent, clever, bright"
*慧, "bright ...
is the news agency's president.
Kyodo News was formed by Furuno Inosuke, the president of the Domei News Agency, following the dissolution of Domei after World War II.[Haru Matsukata Reischauer, "Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage", Harvard University Press, 1986, page 310]
Kyodo News is the only remaining news agency to transmit news via radiofax
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. It broadcasts complete newspapers in Japanese and English, often at 60 lines per minute instead of the more normal 120 because of the greater complexity of written Japanese.
A full day's news takes hours to transmit. Kyodo has a dedicated transmission to Pacific fishing fleets from Kagoshima Prefectural Fishery Radio, and a relay from 9VF, possibly still in the Netherlands. The frequencies formerly used by JJC radio outside Tokyo are now sent from an unknown location, using the same identification in Japanese as 9VF. They are still active and heard daily in 2017.
See also
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References
External links
Kyodo News
Official news site (English)
Official news site (traditional Chinese)
Official news site (simplified Chinese)
Official news site (Japanese)
Official corporate site (English)
Official corporate site (Japanese)
K. K. Kyodo News
Official site (Japanese)
Official site (traditional Chinese)
Official site (simplified Chinese)
Official site (Korean)
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