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Feb. 21, 1872 | The Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun is founded in Asakusa, Tokyo. It is Tokyo's first daily newspaper, and the predecessor to the Mainichi Shimbun. |
1875 | The paper begins the world's first home delivery service. |
Feb. 20, 1876 | Osaka Nippo is founded. |
1888 | Osaka Nippo becomes the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun. |
1918 | The national junior high school football tournament, now the national high school rugby tournament, sponsored by The Mainichi Newspapers, is held for the first time. |
1922 | The Mainichi Shimbun inaugurates the Sunday Mainichi weekly magazine, the English-language Mainichi, and the Braille Mainichi. |
1924 | The first national junior high school invitational baseball tournament, now the National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament, sponsored by The Mainichi Newspapers, is held for the first time. |
1929 | Dr. Inazo Nitobe is invited as an adviser to the head office of The Mainichi Newspapers. |
1936 | The Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for elementary students, is inaugurated. |
1937 | The Mainichi Newspapers begins awarding frames for pictures of the winners of Japan's grand sumo tournaments. |
1943 | The mastheads of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun and Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun are unified under the name Mainichi Shimbun. |
1966 | The Mainichi Newspapers' Tokyo head office is moved from Yurakucho to the new "Palaceside Building" in Takebashi. |
1996 | The Mainichi Shimbun becomes the first Japanese national paper to include bylines with all its articles in principle. |
2009 | The Mainichi Newspapers obtains "ISO 14001" environmental standards certification. |
2011 | The Mainichi Newspapers establishes a holding company with Sports Nippon Newspapers. |