Mainichi Shimbun

(Daily Newspaper), one of the largest Japanese bourgeois newspapers, published by the Mainichi Shimbun concern in Tokyo (since 1872), Osaka (since 1882), Kitakyushu (since 1935), Nagoya (since 1935), and Sapporo (since 1959). Circulation of the morning and evening editions in 1974 was more than 7.6 million copies.