Feb. 21,1872 |
The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun is founded in Asakusa, Tokyo. It is Tokyo’s first daily newspaper, and the predecessor to the Mainichi Shimbun. |
1875 |
The paper begins the world’s first home delivery service. |
Feb. 20, 1876 |
Osaka Nippo is founded. |
1888 |
Osaka Nippo becomes the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun. |
1918 |
The national junior high school football tournament, now the national high school rugby tournament, sponsored by The Mainichi Newspapers, is held for the first time. |
1922 |
The Mainichi Shimbun inaugurates the Sunday Mainichi weekly magazine, the English-language Mainichi, and the Braille Mainichi. |
1924 |
The national junior high school invitational baseball tournament, now the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament, sponsored by The Mainichi Newspapers, is held for the first time. |
1929 |
Dr. Inazo Nitobe is invited as an adviser to the head office of The Mainichi Newspapers. |
1936 |
The Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for elementary students, is inaugurated. |
1937 |
The Mainichi Newspapers begins awarding frames for pictures of the winners of Japan’s grand sumo tournaments. |
1943 |
The mastheads of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun are unified under the name Mainichi Shimbun. |
1966 |
The Mainichi Newspapers’ Tokyo head office is moved from Yurakucho to the new “Palaceside Building” in Takebashi. |
1996 |
The Mainichi Shimbun becomes the first Japanese national paper to include bylines with all its articles in principle. |
2009 |
The Mainichi Newspapers obtains “ISO 14001” environmental standards certification. |
2011 |
The Mainichi Newspapers establishes a holding company with Sports Nippon Newspapers. |