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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Print, online |
Owner(s) | Sports Nippon Newspapers Company |
Founded | 1948 |
Language | Japanese |
Website | https://www.sponichi.co.jp/ |
Sports Nippon (スポーツニッポン, Supōtsu Nippon), also known as Sponichi (スポニチ, Suponichi), is the first Japanese daily sports newspaper, having been founded in 1948. In a 1997 report it was called one of the "Big Three" sports papers in Japan, out of a field of 17 sports dailies.[1]
It is an affiliate newspaper of the Mainichi Shimbun.