Type Daily newspaper Editor Hideya Terashima | Format Broadsheet Political alignment Liberal | |
Publisher Kahoku Shinpo Corporation Founded 1897; 120 years ago (1897) | ||
Kahoku Shinpō (河北新報) is a Japanese language daily newspaper which is published in Sendai, Japan.
History and profile
Kahoku Shinpō was established in 1897. It is a local paper based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. The publisher is the Kahoku Shinpo Corporation. Hideya Terashima is the editor of the daily which is published in broadsheet format.
Kahoku Shinpō significantly contributed the establishment of Tohoku Imperial University in 1907 through its articles on the importance of university education in the region. From October 1945 to January 1947 the paper published Dazai Osamu's novel entitled Pandora no hako (meaning Pandora's Box in English) in sixty-four parts.
Following the 2011 earthquake the editing system of Kahoku Shinpō collapsed and story texts were sent to the Niigata Nippo newspaper.
The 1997 circulation of Kahoku Shinpō which has a liberal political leaning was about 500,000 copies. In 2003 the paper had a circulation of 624,000 copies. The morning edition of the paper had a circulation of 504,911 copies in 2007. The same year the circulation of its evening edition was 107,552 copies.