Corporate Profile
| Company Name | The Asahi Shimbun Company |
|---|---|
| Business | Newspaper / Digital media content; event and exhibition production; real estate enterprises |
| Established | January 25,1879 |
| Representative | Masataka Watanabe, President and CEO |
| Corporate Philosophy | Thinking together and creating together |
| Locations | Tokyo Head Office 5-3-2, Tsukiji, Chuo Ward, Tokyo, 104-8011 Osaka Head Office 2-3-18, Nakanoshima, Kita Ward, Osaka, 530-8211 Seibu Head Office 1-1-1, Muromachi, Kokura-Kita Ward, Kita-Kyushu, 803-8586 Nagoya Head Office 1-3-3, Sakae, Naka Ward, Nagoya, 460-8488 Hokkaido Office 1-6, Kita-ichijo Nishi, Chuo Ward, Sapporo, 060-8602 Fukuoka Office 2-1-1, Hakata Eki-mae, Hakata Ward, Fukuoka, 812-8511 |
| Domestic news bureaus | 239 locations |
| Overseas news bureaus | 34 locations |
| Capital | 650 million yen |
| Sales | Nonconsolidated 239,647 million yen Consolidated 353,608 million yen (167th fiscal year; April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020) |
| Employees | 4,345 (as of September 1, 2020) |
List of Directors
| Position | Name |
| President and CEO | Masataka WATANABE |
| Vice President (Chief Content Strategy Officer / Chief Digital Officer / Chief Vertical Media Officer) | Shiro NAKAMURA |
| Managing Director (Chief Marketing Officer / Marketing / Intellectual Property / Publishing Business / International Affairs) |
Yoichi NISHIMURA |
| Managing Director (Representative of Tokyo Head Office / CTO) | Tatsuya FUJII |
| Managing Director (Chief Strategy Officer / Corporate Group & Broadcasting Network Manager) | Masayuki UMEDA |
| Board Director (Chief Sales Officer / Chief Print Media Business Officer) | Katsuhide KONISHI |
| Board Director (Representative of Osaka Head Office) | Takeshi KOBAYASHI |
| Board Director ＊Outside Director | Masaya FUJINOKI |
| (Full-Time) Audit & Supervisory Board Member | Masayuki NAGAE |
| (Full-Time) Audit & Supervisory Board Member | Hiroko SAKAMOTO |
| Audit & Supervisory Board Member | Ryuji YASUDA |
| Audit & Supervisory Board Member | Keiko KANEKO |
| Audit & Supervisory Board Member | Naoki ADACHI |
| Senior Executive Director (CSR Promotion / Education Business / Women's Empowerment Project) | Tomoko MACHIDA |
| Executive Director (Digital Business) | Hiromi OHNISHI |
| Executive Director (Representative of Seibu Head Office) | Tomoichi ICHIMURA |
| Executive Director (Real Estate) | Gaku SHINJI |
| Executive Director (ICT Engineering) | Kanji MIKAMI |
| Executive Director (Public Affairs / Environment) | Shigeru FUKUSHIMA |
| Executive Director (Corporate Planning / Media Lab) | Takashi HORIE |
| Executive Director (Administration / Personnel /Human Resources Strategy / Work-Style Reform / Compliance) | Jun OKAMOTO |
| Executive Director (Production) | Toshimitsu OGATA |
| Executive Director (Events Strategy / Cultural Projects and Business Development / Olympics, Paralympics and Sports Strategy) |
Reiko HORIKOSHI |
| Executive Director (Representative of Nagoya Head Office) | Hirotoshi SAKO |
| Executive Director (Circulation Strategy / Director Circulation, Tokyo Head Office) | Norio ODAGIRI |
| Executive Director (Finance Director) | Takashi SHIMIZU |
| Executive Director (Media Business) | Tatsuya KANAYAMA |
| Executive Director (Executive Editor) | Katsu TSUNODA |
| Executive Director (Broadcasting Media-Related Projects) | Toshiyuki OTAKI |
(as of June 24, 2020)
Alliances with Overseas Media
The Asahi Shimbun has forged alliances with The New York Times (U.S.) and the Dong-A Ilbo (South Korea). The Tokyo bureaus of both papers are located within the Asahi Shimbun's Tokyo head office, and our paper's New York and Seoul bureaus are located in the head offices of our partners. Popular columns and features appearing in The New York Times run in both the print and digital editions of the Asahi Shimbun. In 2015, in partnership with Shueisha Inc., we began publishing T JAPAN: The New York Times Style Magazine, the Japan edition of The New York Times' free premium magazine.
The Japan edition of The HuffPost a news and blog opinion site from the U.S., was established in 2013. Today, the Asahi Shimbun Company collaborates with The HuffPost as a partner company. The HuffPost introduces diverse viewpoints from Japan and overseas with an emphasis on the social media uniting people around the world.
Participation in the UN Global Compact
The UN Global Compact is an association of companies and groups that have pledged to uphold and act on the basis of ten principles established based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other sources in the four areas of human rights, labor, the environment, and anti-corruption.
The Asahi Shimbun Company began participating in 2004, the first Japanese media company to do so, and is actively involved in the Global Compact Network Japan (GCNJ), the Compact's domestic body. And we are a founding member of the SDG Media Compact. We are committed to fulfilling both our responsibilities as a media institution and our social responsibilities as a corporate citizen.
The Asahi Shimbun Company owns one jet and four helicopters.