11 Facts About Yomiuri Shimbun

Yomiuri Shimbun was launched in 1874 by the Nisshusha newspaper company as a small daily newspaper.

Yomiuri Shimbun's innovations included improved news coverage, a full-page radio program guide, and the establishment of Japan's first professional baseball team, now known as the Yomiuri Giants.

Yomiuri Shimbun was the center of a labor scandal in 1945 and 1946.

In February 2009, the Yomiuri Shimbun entered into a tie-up with The Wall Street Journal for editing, printing and distribution.

In May 2011, when Naoto Kan, then Prime Minister of Japan, asked the Chubu Electric Power Company to shut down several of its Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plants due to safety concerns, the Yomiuri Shimbun called the request "abrupt" and a difficult situation for Chubu Electric's shareholders.

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Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper said in an editorial in 2011 "No written material supporting the claim that government and military authorities were involved in the forcible and systematic recruitment of comfort women has been discovered", and that it regarded the Asian Women's Fund, set up to compensate for wartime abuses, as a failure based on a misunderstanding of history.

The New York Times reported on similar statements previously, writing that "The nation's largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, applauded the revisions" regarding removing the word "forcibly" from referring to laborers brought to Japan in the prewar period and revising the comfort women controversy.

Yomiuri Shimbun editorials have opposed the DPJ government and denounced denuclearization as "not a viable option".

Yomiuri Shimbun publishes The Japan News, one of Japan's largest English-language newspapers.

Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings owns the Chuokoron-Shinsha publishing company, which it acquired in 1999, and the Nippon Television network.

In November 1999, the Yomiuri Shimbun released a CD-ROM titled "The Yomiuri Shimbun in the Meiji Era, " which provided searchable archives of news articles and images from the period that have been digitalized from microfilm.