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Yomiuri Shimbun

Yomiuri Shimbun
Front page of the Yomiuri Shimbun from July 17, 2006, following the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1695 two days prior
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBlanket (54.6 by 40.65 centimeters (21.50 in × 16.00 in))
Owner(s)The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings
FoundedNovember 2, 1874 (1874-11-02)[1]
Political alignmentCenter-right[2] to right-wing[3]
Conservatism (Japanese)[4]
Moderate conservatism[5]
HeadquartersOtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
CirculationDecrease 7,044,225 (2021)[6]
Websitewww.yomiuri.co.jp
First issue of Yomiuri Shimbun on November 2, 1874
Current headquarters of the Yomiuri Shimbun in Tokyo (読売新聞東京本社)
Former headquarters of the Yomiuri Shimbun in Tokyo, now demolished
The Yomiuri Shimbun's Osaka office
The Yomiuri Shimbun's Fukuoka office

The Yomiuri Shimbun (讀賣新聞/読売新聞) is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities.[7] It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are The Asahi Shimbun, the Chunichi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. It is headquartered in Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo.[8]

It is a newspaper that represents Tokyo and generally has a conservative orientation. It is one of Japan's leading newspapers, along with the Osaka-based liberal (Third Way) Asahi Shimbun and the Nagoya-based social democratic Chunichi Shimbun. This newspaper is well known for its pro-American stance among major Japanese media.[9]

It is published by regional bureaus, all of them subsidiaries of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest media conglomerate by size behind Sony,[10][11] which is privately held by law and wholly owned by present and former employees and members of the Matsutarō Shōriki family. The Holdings has been part-owned by the family since Matsutarō Shōriki's purchase of the newspaper in 1924 (currently owning a total of 45.26% stock); despite its control, the family is not involved in its executive operations.

Founded in 1874,[12] the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world as of 2019,[13][14] having a morning circulation of 7.0 million as of June 2021.[6] The paper is printed twice a day and in several different local editions.

The Yomiuri Shimbun established the Yomiuri Prize in 1949. Its winners have included Yukio Mishima and Haruki Murakami.

  1. ^ "紙面の変遷、世相を映す". The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). Retrieved March 30, 2023.
  2. ^ Patrick Finney (2010). Remembering the Road to World War Two: International History, National Identity, Collective Memory.
  3. ^ "Yomiuri Shimbun Apologizes on Comfort Women Issue". The Diplomat. 4 December 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  4. ^ Gilbert Rozman, ed. (2010). U.S. Leadership, History, and Bilateral Relations in Northeast Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 134. ISBN 9781139492034. Conservative Yomiuri Shimbun also organized a special task force to ...
  5. ^ Daniel M. Kliman, ed. (2014). Fateful Transitions: How Democracies Manage Rising Powers, from the Eve of World War I to China's Ascendance. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 122. ISBN 9780812290295. ... observers in Japan identified other obstacles to China's continued economic growth. Yomiuri Shimbun, a moderately conservative newspaper and ...
  6. ^ a b 読売新聞のメディアデータ [Yomiuri Shimbun Media Data]. The Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese). 2020. Archived from the original on 13 February 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Yomiuri printing factories (印刷工場)". Archived from the original on 31 August 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  8. ^ "組織体制" Archived August 31, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Yomiuri Shimbun. Retrieved 5 March 2010.
  9. ^ Linus Hagstrom, ed. (2015). Identity Change and Foreign Policy: Japan and its 'Others'. Routledge. p. 101. ISBN 9781317394860. It is particularly interesting to note that the more left-leaning Asahi Shimbun (333 articles) carried a higher number of articles and headlines than the conservative (but moderate and pro-American) Yomiuri Shimbun, and actually comes ...
  10. ^ "Overview of Yomiuri Group Power". Archived from the original on 10 November 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  11. ^ The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings is the largest media conglomerate by revenue in Japan, while Sony is Japan's largest media conglomerate by worldwide media/entertainment revenue.
  12. ^ John Horne (2005). "Sport and the Mass Media in Japan" (PDF). Sociology of Sport Journal. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
  13. ^ "Dainik Bhaskar is world's third-largest circulated newspaper with 4.3 mn copies: WAN IFRA". Best Media Info. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  14. ^ Schell, Orville (1 January 2007). "Japan's war guilt revisited". WAN. Retrieved 31 December 2006.

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