Nikkan Gendai (日刊ゲンダイ) is a tabloid-sized evening newspaper published Nikkan Gendai Co., Ltd., a publisher belonging to the Otowa Group centered on Kodansha, and is a member of the Japan Magazine Publishers Association, an industry group of magazine publishers.

[1] It is mainly sold at kiosk newsstands, and competes with "Yukan Fuji" and "Tokyo Sports".

[3] Published nationwide, mainly in the four major cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Sapporo.

[4] In Sapporo, it was originally published as "Nikkan Sapporo",[a] but from June 2006, it was published as "Nikkan Gendai".

[5] Therefore, Tokyo and Osaka are directly managed, and Hokkaido and Chubu are franchise agreements.