![]() S-T Building, the headquarters of Sports Nippon Newspapers Company, Tonichi Printing Company and Tokyo Sports Press Company, in Tokyo | |
Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Print, online |
Owner(s) | Sports Nippon Newspapers Company |
Founded | 1948 |
Language | Japanese |
Website | https://www.sponichi.co.jp/ |
Sports Nippon (スポーツニッポン, Supōtsu Nippon), also known as Sponichi (スポニチ, Suponichi), is the first Japanese daily sports newspaper, having been founded in 1948. In a 1997 report it was called one of the "Big Three" sports papers in Japan, out of a field of 17 sports dailies.[1]
It is an affiliate newspaper of the Mainichi Shimbun.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Cooper-Chen, Anne (1997). Mass communication in Japan. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press. p. 55-56. ISBN 9780813827100.
External links
[edit]- (in Japanese) Official website