Kahoku Shimpō

Kahoku Shimpō
The head office of Kahoku Shimpō
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
PublisherKahoku Shimpo Corporation
Founded1897; 127 years ago (1897)
Political alignmentLiberal
LanguageJapanese
HeadquartersSendai
CountryJapan
Websitewww.kahoku.co.jp

Kahoku Shimpō (河北新報) is a daily newspaper which is published in Sendai, Japan. The paper has been in circulation since 1897.

History and profile[edit]

Kahoku Shimpō was established in 1897.[1] It is a local paper based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.[1][2] The publisher is the Kahoku Shimpo Corporation.[3] As of 2014 Hideya Terashima was the editor of the daily[4] which is published in broadsheet format.[5]

Kahoku Shimpō significantly contributed to the establishment of Tohoku Imperial University in 1907 through its articles on the importance of university education in the region.[1] From October 1945 to January 1947 the paper published Dazai Osamu's novel entitled Pandora no hako (Japanese: Pandora's Box) in sixty-four parts.[6]

Following the 2011 earthquake the editing system of Kahoku Shimpō collapsed and story texts were sent to the Niigata Nippo newspaper.[7]

The 1997 circulation of Kahoku Shimpō which has a liberal political leaning was about 500,000 copies.[1] In 2003 the paper had a circulation of 624,000 copies.[5] The morning edition of the paper had a circulation of 504,911 copies in 2007.[8] The same year the circulation of its evening edition was 107,552 copies.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Anthony S. Rausch (2012). Japan's Local Newspapers: Chihōshi and Revitalization Journalism. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-136-30189-6.
  2. ^ "Moving Forward: Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake". Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies. 18 October 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ "The Great East Japan Earthquake and The Indian Ocean Tsunami" (Press release). JICA. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. ^ Hideya Terashima. "Standing in the wake of devastation". Tedx Tohoku. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ^ a b "World Press Trends" (PDF). World Association of Newspapers. Paris. 2004. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  6. ^ Jonathan E. Abel (2012). Redacted: The Archives of Censorship in Transwar Japan. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-520-27334-4.
  7. ^ Christina Hsu (18 March 2011). "Japanese Newspapers' Efforts to Keep People Informed in the Aftermath of Earthquake and Tsunami". International Press Institute. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  8. ^ a b "Japan -- Media Environment Open; State Looms Large" (PDF). Open Source Center. 18 August 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2015.

External links[edit]

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