List of newspapers in Japan

Below is a list of newspapers published in Japan. (See also Japanese newspapers.)

National papers

• Yomiuri Shimbun (conservative, daily) 10,042,075
• Asahi Shimbun (left,^{[citation needed]} daily) 8,093,885
• Mainichi Shimbun (left,^{[citation needed]} daily) 3,974,559
• Sankei Shimbun (far-right, daily) 2,191,587
• Akahata (Red Flag) (left,^{[citation needed]} newspaper of the Japanese Communist Party, daily) 1,680,000
• Nikkei Shimbun (economics, daily) 3,034,481

Quasi-national papers

• Chunichi Shimbun / Tokyo Shimbun
• Association of 3. (Hokkaido Shimbun, Chunichi Shimbun/Tokyo Shimbun, Nishinippon Shimbun)

Business and industry papers

• Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News)
• Fuji Sankei Business i.
• Nihon Kogyo Simbun
• Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
• Nikkei Kinyu Simbun, (Nikkei Financial Daily)
• Nikkei Ryutsu Simbun, (Nikkei Marketing Journal)
• Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun

Local papers

• Ainu Times
• Akita Sakigake Shimpo
• Chiba Nippo
• Chugoku Shimbun
• Daily Tohoku
• The Eastern Chronicle
• Ehime Shimbun
• Fukui Shimbun
• Fukushima Minpo
• Fukushima Minyu
• Gifu Shimbun
• Hokkaido Shimbun
• Hokkoku Shimbun
• Hokuriku Chunichi Shimbun
• Ibaraki Shimbun
• Ise Shimbun
• Iwate Nippo
• Jomo Shimbun
• Kahoku Shimpo
• Kanagawa Shimbun
• Kitanippon Shimbun
• Kobe Shimbun
• Kochi Shimbun
• Kumamoto Nichinichi Shimbun
• Kyoto Shimbun
• Minaminippon Shimbun
• Miyazaki Nichinichi Shimbun
• Nagasaki Shimbun
• Nara Shimbun
• Nihonkai Shimbun
• Niigata Nippo
• Nishinippon Shimbun
• Oita Godo Shimbun
• Okinawa Times
• Ryūkyū Shimpo
• Saga Shimbun
• Saitama Shimbun
• Sanin Chuo Shimpo
• Sanyō Shimbun
• Shikoku Shimbun
• Shimotsuke Shimbun
• Shinano Mainichi Shimbun
• Shizuoka Shimbun
• Tokachi Mainichi Shimbun
• Tokushima Shimbun
• Too Nippo
• Yamagata Shimbun
• Yamaguchi Shimbun
• Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun

Sports papers

• Chukyo Sports
• Chunichi Sports
• Daily Sports
• Doshin Sports
• Kyūshū Sports
• Nikkan Sports
• Nishinippon Sports
• Osaka Sports
• Sankei Sports
• Sports Hochi (formerly the Hochi Shimbun)
• Sports Nippon
• Tokyo Chunichi Sports
• Tokyo Sports

Tabloids

• Nikkan Gendai
• Yukan Fuji

English language papers

• The Daily Yomiuri
• International Herald Tribune / The Asahi Shimbun
• The Japan Times

Stance and circulation, only morning (2007)

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• Yomiuri: conservative (High quality paper) 10,042,075
• Asahi: Left (High quality paper) 8,093,885
• Mainichi: Liberal/left (High quality paper) 3,974,559
• Chunichi Shimbun/Tokyo Shimbun: Left (High quality paper) 3,475,049
• Nihon Keizai: Business (High quality paper) 3,034,481
• Tokyo Sports: (Sports) 2,228,000
• Sankei: Right (High quality paper) 2,191,587
• Nikkan Sports: 1,970,000
• Nikkan Geadai: Left (Tabloid) 1,681,500
• Yukan Fuji: Right (Tabloid) 1,559,000
• Akahata (Red Flag): Communist Party bulletin 1,680,000
• Houchi Shimbun: (Sports) 1,428,000
• Sankei Sports: 1,367,734
• Hokkaido Shimbun: Left (High quality paper) 1,209,231
• Daily Sports: 963,000
• Chunichi Sports/Tokyo Chunichi Sports: 942,034
• Nishinippon Shimbun: Left (High quality paper) 852,943
• Chugoku Shimbun: Left (High quality paper) 719,194
• Shizuoka Shimbun: Left (High quality paper) 717,000
• Kobe Shimbun: Left (High quality paper) 562,011
• Kyoto Shimbun: Left (High quality paper) 506,841
• Kahoku Shimpo: Liberal (High quality paper) 504,953
• Shinano Mainichi Shimbun: Liberal (High quality paper) 485,000
• Kanagawa Shimbun: Liberal (High quality paper) 300,000