Sports Nippon

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Sports Nippon

S-T Building, the headquarters of Sports Nippon Newspapers Company, Tonichi Printing Company and Tokyo Sports Press Company, in Tokyo
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Print, online
Owner(s)	Sports Nippon Newspapers Company
Founded	1948
Language	Japanese
Website	https://www.sponichi.co.jp/

Sports Nippon (スポーツニッポン, Supōtsu Nippon), also known as Sponichi (スポニチ, Suponichi), is the first Japanese daily sports newspaper, having been founded in 1948. In a 1997 report it was called one of the "Big Three" sports papers in Japan, out of a field of 17 sports dailies.^[1]

It is an affiliate newspaper of the Mainichi Shimbun.