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Shimbunwiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Founded in 1872 as the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun is the nation’s oldest newspaper. |
 | | The Osaka Nichinichi Shimbun, founded in 1888, and the Tokyo Nichinichi merged in 1911, continuing to publish separately until finally moving under the single Mainichi Newspaper masthead in 1943. |
 | | The Sankei Shimbun ranks sixth in daily newspaper circulation in Japan, and second as a business daily, at 2.17 million morning papers and 636,649 evening papers. |
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