Chūgoku Shimbun
| Chūgoku Shimbun | |
|---|---|
| description | Japanese newspaper |
| publishing company | Chūgoku Shimbunsha |
| First edition | 1892 |
| Frequency of publication | daily / saturday |
| Sold edition | approx. 800,000 copies |
| Web link | www.chugoku-np.co.jp |
The Chūgoku Shimbun ( Japanese 中国 新聞 , dt. "Newspaper of the Chūgoku Region") is a local Japanese daily newspaper based in Hiroshima . It serves the Chūgoku region with market shares in the prefectures of Hiroshima , Yamaguchi , Shimane and Okayama . The morning edition has a circulation of around 700,000, the evening edition of around 70,000 copies daily.
history
The newspaper was founded as Chūgoku ( 中國 ) on May 5, 1892 by its publisher Yamamoto Saburō and renamed the Chūgoku Shimbun in 1908 . When the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 , the newspaper lost 113 employees as well as the publishing house and all of its equipment. On August 9th , the paper was able to appear again with the help of other newspaper publishers.
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Coordinates: 34 ° 23 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 132 ° 26 ′ 55.6 ″ E