Asahi Shinbun

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The Asahi Shimbun
First issue on 25 January 1879
Type Daily newspaper
Company type: Private
Format Broadsheet [1]
Owner(s) Repurchased shares (25%)
Murayama family (21.02%; 10% through the KOSETSU Museum of Art)
Ueno family (total 14.22% by Sh?ichi Ueno's death in 2016)
TV Asahi (11.88%)
Toppan (7.31%)
Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdcorp (2.31%)
Founder(s) Murayama Ry?hei  [ ja ]
Ueno Riichi  [ ja ]
Founded 25 January 1879
Political alignment Centre-left [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
Liberalism [7] [8]
Headquarters Nakanoshima , Kita-ku, Osaka , Japan
Country Japan
Circulation
Website www .asahi .com (Japanese)
www .asahi .com /ajw (English)
Flag of the Asahi Shimbun Company

Asahi Shinbun ( Morning Sun Newspaper ) is a major newspaper in Japan. It is based in Osaka . It started in 1879. It is left-wing . It publishes a daily English -language edition online.

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  1. ↑ "?字で見る朝日新聞" . Asahi . Retrieved 31 March 2011 .
  2. ↑ "Japan paper Yomiuri Shimbun retracts 'sex slaves' references" . BBC News . 28 November 2014 . Retrieved 21 February 2020 . In August the left-of-centre Asahi newspaper retracted a series of articles it had published about the comfort women issue based on the testimony of a Japanese author Seiji Yoshida.
  3. ↑ "The press in Japan - Gotcha" . The Economist . 20 September 2014 . Retrieved 21 February 2020 . The Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading left-of-centre newspaper, with a circulation of 7.3m, is battling for its reputation after a third embarrassing ...
  4. ↑ "Japan PM to overturn pacifist defence policy" . The Guardian . 30 June 2014 . Retrieved 21 February 2020 . The left-of-centre Asahi Shimbun accused Abe of abandoning Japan's postwar pacifism after minimal public debate.
  5. ↑ Saul J. Takahashi (2019). Civil and Political Rights in Japan: A Tribute to Sir Nigel Rodley . " ... affiliated with the left of centre newspaper Asahi Shimbun, has been a particular target. "
  6. ↑ "Japan's Asahi newspaper sacks editor over Fukushima report errors" . Financial Times . 12 September 2014 . Retrieved 13 July 2020 .
  7. ↑ "Asahi Shimbun" . Britannica . The paper is known for its liberal and progressive views.
  8. ↑ Fackler, Martin (2016-05-27). "The Silencing of Japan's Free Press" . Foreign Policy . Retrieved 2020-03-05 . That announcement capped a difficult year-and-a-half for independent media that saw the largest liberal newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, subdued and other critical commentators removed from the airwaves.
  9. ↑ 朝日新聞媒?資料 Data File 2021 [Asahi Shimbun Media Resources Data File 2021] (PDF) (in Japanese). The Asahi Shimbun. 4 January 2021. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 May 2021 . Retrieved 11 March 2021 .
  10. ↑ "Strength of The Asahi Shimbun 2018" (PDF) . The Asahi Shimbun. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 July 2021 . Retrieved 11 March 2021 .
  11. ↑ "朝日新聞、4年間で?行部?105万減の衝?…新聞業界、存亡の危機突入へ" . biz-journal.
  12. ↑ "全?紙の朝?夕刊別販?部?(?位：部)" . Yomiuri. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011 . Retrieved 31 March 2011 .

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