Sports Hochi

, previously known as , is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day. In 2005, the Hochi Shimbun had a circulation of 1.354 million.

It is an affiliate newspaper of Yomiuri Shimbun.

Reports

19 September 1939: SS Scharnhorst

The Hochi Shimbun newspaper was mentioned in an article in The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser on September 20, 1939 concerning the conversion of the SS Scharnhorst into the escort carrier Shin'yō by the Imperial Japanese Navy.

See also

• Hochi Film Award
• Golden Spirit Award

References

• "In Japan" (1900) 32 Printers' Ink, 22 August 1900, p 12
• Patricia L Maclachlan. The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871–2010. (Harvard East Asian Monographs 338). 2011. ISBN 9781684175123. pp 50 & 51.
• Gill Steel, "Populism and the print media: the case of Japan" (2022) 23 Japanese Journal of Political Science 363

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