Mainichi
The Mainichi Shimbun is one of Japan's major national daily newspapers, published in Japanese from Tokyo with an English-language online edition. It covers national and international news, politics, and society for a broad readership and is among the country's oldest and most established press titles.
Mainichi at a glance
- Country
- Japan
- Region
- East Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 1872
- Owner
- The Mainichi Newspapers
- Published from
- Tokyo
- Website
- mainichi.jp ↗
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How Crosswire groups Mainichi
Crosswire groups Mainichi as Centrist for comparisons within Japan's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Japan, Asahi Shimbun is listed as Left-leaning, while Yomiuri Shimbun and Sankei Shimbun are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Mainichi beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Mainichi sits in Japan's press
Mainichi was founded in 1872, is published from Tokyo and is owned by The Mainichi Newspapers. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Japan, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Sankei Shimbun. By outlets tracked, Japan ranks second of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.
Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 67 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Mainichi outside Japan, starting with East Asia, are South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), The UB Post (Mongolia), The Hindu (India) and Dawn (Pakistan). Opening one of them beside Mainichi is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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