The newspaper is dominant in its region, with a market penetration approaching 60 percent of the population of Aichi Prefecture.

[citation needed] From 1936 to 1940 it owned the Japanese Baseball League team Nagoya Kinko.

They are in New York City, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul, Manila, and Bangkok.

It was elected in the year) and changed to a left-leaning newspaper supported by the Japan Socialist Party.

Probably because of this, the mass media reforms led by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications under the LDP administration in the Showa era (1955 system) were treated coldly, and it was not possible to become a national newspaper and to have its own TV station in Kanto.

The Asahi Shimbun had a close relationship with the Kōchikai, a moderate faction of the Liberal Democratic Party.