''Senken Shimbun'' is a daily Japanese

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newspaper, based in Tokyo,

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

."Shinshu University Profile of Senken Shinshu and its president, Osao Shirako"
Retrieved 16 July 2015 It was founded in 1956 and has the world's largest circulation of any fashion industry newspaper. It provides news, research data and new business ideas and has a great influence over the fashion trade in Japan. Its core readership consists of people involved in the textile and fashion industries and related sectors."Japanese Streets Magazine"
Retrieved 16 July 2015"Senken Shimbun Corporate Information Page"
Retrieved 16 July 2015 ''Senken Shimbun'' regularly organizes fashion exhibitions, called JFW, which is a fashion industry exhibition, promoting the Japanese fashion industry. It helps fashion products throughout Japan to be distributed in Japan's

domestic market A domestic market, also referred to as an internal market or domestic trading, is the supply and demand of goods, services, and securities within a single country. In domestic trading, a firm faces only one set of competitive, economic, and market ...

, and also serves as a platform targeting overseas markets. Beginning in 2000, JFW-IFF, an international version of the exhibition, has been held twice a year."JFW Website"
Retrieved 16 July 2015 In 2003, the company opened a branch office in Shanghai to better collect information from outside Japan. It has an English-language version, called ''The Senken'' which is published quarterly."The Senken - English Language Version"
Retrieved 16 July 2015 ''Senken Shimbun'' has a circulation of 200,000 and is distributed daily through the very efficient

Asahi newspaper 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 ...

delivery system."What's JFW-IFF"
Retrieved 16 July 2015

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External links

''Senken Shimbun'' Website

''The Senken'' - English Version
1956 establishments in Japan Newspapers established in 1956 Japanese-language newspapers Daily newspapers published in Japan {{Asia-newspaper-stub