Shimbun Akahata

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Shimbun Akahata

Type	Daily newspaper
Owner(s)	Japanese Communist Party
Editor-in-chief	Kogiso Yoji
Founded	1928
Language	Japanese
Headquarters	Tokyo
Country	Japan
Circulation	850,000 [1]
Website	Akahata (in Japanese) Japan Press Weekly (in English)
Media of Japan List of newspapers

Shimbun Akahata (しんぶん赤旗, Shinbun Akahata, lit. 'Newspaper Red Flag') is the daily newspaper of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) in the form of a national newspaper. It was founded in 1928 and currently has both daily and weekly editions.^[2]

Akahata has journalists based in the capitals of ten countries around the globe. They are Beijing, Berlin, Cairo, Hanoi, London, Mexico City, Moscow, New Delhi, Paris, and Washington, D.C. Japan Press Weekly is the newspaper's English edition.