Chunichi Shimbun

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The Chunichi Shimbun

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Blanket (54.6 cm × 40.65 cm)
Owner(s)	Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd.
Publisher	Uichirō Ohshima
Founded	September 1942 (Chubu-Nippon Shimbun) March 1886 (Shin-Aichi and Nagoya Shimbun)
Political alignment	Centre-left to left-wing Social democracy Liberalism (Japanese) Progressivism
Language	Japanese
Headquarters	Nagoya
Circulation	Morning edition: 2,047,850 Evening edition: 288,651 (Japan ABC, April 2021)
Website	www.chunichi.co.jp

The Chunichi Shimbun (中日新聞, Chūnichi Shinbun, Central Japan News) is a Japanese daily "broadsheet" newspaper published in mostly Aichi Prefecture and neighboring regions by Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd.^[1] Based in Nagoya, one of Japanese three major metropolitan areas, it boasts the third circulation after the group newspapers the Yomiuri Shimbun and The Asahi Shimbun. Even the Chunichi Shimbun alone exceeds the number of copies of the Sankei Shimbun. The newspaper is dominant in its region, with a market penetration approaching 60 percent of the population of Aichi Prefecture. The Chunichi Shimbun group also publishes the Tokyo Shimbun, the Chunichi Sports, and the Tokyo Chunichi Sports newspapers. While each newspaper maintains independent leadership and is considered a "separate" paper, the group's combined circulation in 2022 was 2,321,414, ranking third in Japan behind the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Asahi Shimbun.

The Chunichi Shimbun is Japan's second largest leftist newspaper.^{[citation needed]} It is positioned as a representative newspaper of Nagoya.

It is also the owner of the Chunichi Dragons baseball team.