Mainichi
The Mainichi Shimbun is one of Japan's major national daily newspapers, published in Japanese from Tokyo with an English-language online edition. It covers national and international news, politics, and society for a broad readership and is among the country's oldest and most established press titles.
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Mainichi is positioned toward the editorial center, or its orientation is mixed or not consistently classified.
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