The , officially called , is a daily
newspaper
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in the
Philippines
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written in the
Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic languages, Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese dia ...
. Established in May 1992 as a
broadsheet
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, it is
Southeast Asia
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's first modern-day daily Japanese-language newspaper.
Although the newspaper is written primarily in Japanese, it also has a section in English.
The newspaper and its journalists have won several awards for its news articles or other works based on their experiences while on assignment. It has won several awards from the Association of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad, including two grand prizes in 2004 and 2007,
while a journalist for the newspaper, Takehide Mizutani, won the in 2011 for his book , inspired by the homeless Japanese he met in the Philippines as a journalist.
The newspaper also has a history of community outreach, particularly to non-Japanese-speaking Filipinos, through the Daily Manila Shimbun Culture Center. It began organizing an annual cooking festival in 1998,
as well as a
Filipino-language essay writing contest in 2002.
In 2014, the newspaper signed a memorandum of agreement with the Tourism Promotions Board, an attached agency of the
Department of Tourism, to promote Japanese tourism in the Philippines through media placements both in the ''Manila Shimbun'' and its sister magazines.
The newspaper ended its print edition in December 2021 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines
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, leaving the online edition as its sole format,
although the print edition resumed production on October 1, 2022.
Production was halted again in November 2023, and then resumed on September 1, 2024.
The ''Manila Shimbun'' also refers to an unrelated
World War II-era newspaper published by the , a corporation that held a monopoly on all wartime print information dissemination for
propaganda purposes, including control over pre-war outlets that were allowed to remain open.
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Japanese-language newspapers
Daily newspapers published in the Philippines
National newspapers published in the Philippines
Newspapers published in Metro Manila
Newspapers established in 1992
1992 establishments in the Philippines