 first issue
The Hokkoku Shimbun
Hokkoku Shimbun was founded on August 5, 1893. In those days, democratic rights
movements were flourishing and there were many political, argumentative papers
. In that environment, many of them became only tools for the political party
interests. Hokkoku Shimbun had declared impartiality and independence of any
parties and raised a curtain of modern journalism at the press of Hokuriku
region. The world has changed through the Meiji, Taisho, Showa and Heisei eras,
but the ideal policy of the foundation has not changed. Hokkoku Shimbun has
grown along with the people of the Hokuriku region as the representative paper
and has mirrored the world and Japanese modern history.
In 1979, Hokkoku Shimbun planned a fast computerized editing system. In 1981,
Hokkoku Shimbun started "HELLOS" which was the first computerized full page
editing system in Japan and issued quick, accurate and beautiful newspapers for
subscribers. In 1991, Mr.Hidekazu Tobita took office as the President of
Hokkoku Shimbun and made an effort to establish the multimedia information
industry around newspaper as the second foundation stage of Hokkoku Shimbun.
In the same year, the Hokkoku Shimbun Kaikan which has twenty-one stories was
completed and Toyama Shimbun Kaikan which has seven stories was completed in
the following year. The Hokkoku Shimbun has been tied up with the L'EST
REPUBLICAIN of Nancy City, France, Suzhow Daily News of Suzhow City, China,
JORNAL DO NIKKEY of Sao Paulo, Brasil and exchanged articles and reporters. In
addition to that, The Hokkoku Shimbun has cooperation agreement with ITAR-TASS
of Moscow City, Ruussia. Hokkoku Shimbun issues about 341,000 morning papers
(including those of Toyama Shimbun) and about 92,000 evening papers daily. The
morning paper subscription covers about 70% of all in Ishikawa Prefecture. It
indicates that about 7 out of 10 families subscribe to Hokkoku Shimbun.
Address of head office: 2-5-1 Korinbo Kanazawa-shi Ishikawa, Japan
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