The Seikyo Shimbun headquarters in Shinanomachi, Shinjuku, Tokyo

The Seikyo Shimbun (聖教新聞, Seikyō Shimbun) (English: "the newspaper of sacred teachings") is a Japanese newspaper. It is owned by the Japanese Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai. In 1997, it claimed a 5,5 million circulation, but the number is controversial and impossible to verify.[1]

Background

The Seikyo Shimbun was first published on 20 April 1951.[2]

The publication is owned and operated by the Japanese Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai.

It is not considered as a regular newspaper and usually does not provide current news.

It mainly features news articles about the activities of the former president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI), Daisaku Ikeda, and essays written by him, as well as news and experiences by Soka Gakkai members in Japan and abroad.

The Seikyo Shimbun is delivered throughout Japan by volunteer deliverers[3] to its subscribers. It is not sold in public shops.

Unlike the other daily newspapers in Japan, the Seikyo Shinbun is not a member of the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association[4] nor the 日本ABC協会[5] who are officially in charge of the circulation numbers of Japanese newspapers.

History

  • 1951 April 20 - First issue of the Seikyo Shimbun is published. The paper has a two-page format and is published every 10 days with nominally a circulation of 5,000.[6]
  • 1965 July 15 - The Seikyo Shimbun becomes a daily paper.[6]
  • 1971 January 4 - Adopts a 12-page format (which remains the same as of 2016).
  • 1990 July 19 - 10,000th issue published.
  • 2006 November 18 - Official website of the Seikyo Shimbun, Seikyo Online is launched.
  • 2008 July 15 – Front-page articles began to be printed in color on a daily basis.
  • 2010 April 20 – The official website Seikyo Online was redesigned. 
  • 2011 April 20 – 60th anniversary of the newspaper’s founding. 
  • 2011 November 3 – The serialized novel The New Human Revolution reached its 4,726th installment, surpassing Sōhachi Yamaoka’s Tokugawa Ieyasu (4,725 installments, including extra stories), setting a new record for the longest newspaper novel serialization in Japan. 
  • 2014 May 8 – The newspaper’s title and layout was completely redesigned.
  • 2015 July 15 – 50th anniversary of daily publication. 
  • 2016 February 1 – The official website Seikyo Online was redesigned again, with some content becoming subscription-based.
  • 2017 February 18 – The serialization of The New Human Revolution surpassed 6,000 installments. 
  • 2018 September 8 – The New Human Revolution was completed.
  • 2019 January 20 – The newspaper reached its 20,000th issue. [7] [8]
  • 2019 November 12 – Seikyo Online was completely revamped and rebranded as Seikyo Digital Edition. 
  • 2019 November 18 – The Soka Gakkai World Seikyo Center was completed in the Soka Gakkai Headquarters area in Shinanomachi, Tokyo, on the site of the former TEPCO Hospital [ja]. Business operations were relocated. 

See also

References

  1. ^ Creedon, Pamela J.; Cramer, Judith (2007). Women in mass communication (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications. ISBN 978-1-4129-3695-8.
  2. ^ "60th anniversary of Seikyo Shimbun". Soka Gakkai International. 9 May 2011. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  3. ^ "60th Anniversary of Seikyo Shimbun Newspaper". Soka Gakkai International. Archived from the original on 5 November 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  4. ^ ""Member News Organizations｜Pressnet"". Jan 2024.
  5. ^ ""会員社 / 日本ABC協会"". Jan 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Seikyo Press | SGI Quarterly". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-02-08.
  7. ^ 充実する「SEIKYO online」、SEIKYO online、2019年1月21日。
  8. ^ 本紙創刊２万号記念特集㊤、SEIKYO online、2019年1月20日。

Further reading

  • De Lange, William (2023). A History of Japanese Journalism: State of Affairs and Affairs of State. Toyo Press. ISBN 978-94-92722-393.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikyo_Shimbun
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