Asahi Shimbun

This article covers the Japanese daily newspaper. For the media company that publishes the newspaper and is often referred to by the same name, see Asahi Shimbun-sha .

Asahi Shimbun 朝日 新聞
description	Subscription daily newspaper
publishing company	Asahi Shimbun-sha
First edition	January 25, 1879
Frequency of publication	Mondays to Sundays (except on Japanese "newspaper holidays " shimbun kyūkanbi )
Sold edition	approx. 8,000,000 copies
Web link	asahi.com

Asahi Shinbun Company logo

Headquarters of the newspaper in Tokyo

Asahi Shimbun ( Japanese 朝日 新聞 , eng. Morning sun newspaper ) is with a morning print run of more than 8 million and an evening print run of almost 3.8 million in 2005, not only the second largest newspaper in Japan after Yomiuri Shimbun , but also the World.

history

The newspaper first appeared on January 25, 1879. Within a few years, the initial tabloid became an influential medium with a print run of around 20,000 copies, which was impressive at the time. Asahi Shimbun (now with a regional edition for Tokyo ) was run as a family company until 1919 and then converted into a stock corporation.

In the 1930s, the sheet reached a circulation of millions. In 1936, the editorial building was occupied and demolished by insurgent coups because the newspaper criticized the increasing militarization of politics and the military conquest of Manchuria .

After the Pacific War , the newspaper developed into the largest circulation newspaper in Japan. She maintained this position until 1977.

In March 1954, an English-language edition, the Asahi Evening News, was published for the first time. It was continued until 2001. Instead, the Herald / Asahi, produced in cooperation with the International Herald Tribune , has appeared since then .

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Others

• The newspaper sees itself as left-wing liberal. She takes a friendly position towards the People's Republic of China . This is also expressed in the publication of the biography book Saishin Shina yōjin den .
• The newspaper is co-organizer of the Yokohama Triennial .
• The newspaper introduced the Asahi characters , special forms of the Kanji.

Tensei Jingo

Tensei Jingo ( Japanese 天 声 人 語 ; literally: words of heaven, language of the people ) is a famous column that has been published anonymously since 1904 in the morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun. Current news and topics are discussed in it.

The name is said to come from a Chinese proverb, but there are also explanations based on the Latin vox populi vox dei . During the Pacific War , the name was changed to Shimpūpu ( Japanese 神 風 賦 ). After the war, however, they returned to the original name.

Web links

Commons : Asahi Shimbun  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Asahi website (Japanese)
• Website Herald / Asahi (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Asahi Shimbun ( Memento from May 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )