How do you get the news?
Newspaper (新聞：shimbun), TV (テレビ：terebi), Radio (ラジオ：rajio), or Internet (インターネット：intanetto)?
There are some nationwide newspapers in Japan. They are called zenkoku shi (全国紙). Other newspapers are circulated by region or by prefecture, and called chiho shi (地方紙). There are sports papers (スポーツ紙：supotsu shi) and specialty papers (専門紙：senmon shi) too. Some are issued twice a day. Morning paper is called chokan (朝刊), and evening paper is called yukan (夕刊). Usually morning paper has more pages and is more expensive than evening paper.
The first Japanese newspaper began in the 17th century as kawara ban (瓦版), literally tile-block printing.
The five major nationwide newspapers and their circulations are Yomiuri Shimbun (読売新聞), 10,020,000 copies, Asahi Shimbun (朝日新聞), 8,030,000 copies, Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞), 3,770,000 copies, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞), 3,050,000 copies, and Sankei Shimbun (産経新聞), 1,850,000 copies.
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