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Kyodo News

Japanese news agency

Summary

Japanese news agency

Field	Value
name	Kyodo News
logo	Kyodo_News_logo.svg
former_name	Domei News Agency
image	[[File:Shiodome Media Tower.jpg	260px	border]]
image_caption	Shiodome Media Tower, headquarters of Kyodo News in Minato, Tokyo, Japan
type	Nonprofit cooperative news agency
founded
founder	Furuno Inosuke
area_served	Japan and worldwide
key_people	Toshimitsu Sawai
(President)
industry	News agency
location	Tokyo, Minato-ku, Higashi-Shimbashi 1-chome No. 7 No. 1
operating_income	40.7 billion yen (Fiscal year ended March 2012)
num_employees	1,621 ()
subsid	Kyodo News International
homepage

(President)

Kyodo News is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business arm, established in 1972. The subdivision Kyodo News International, founded in 1982, provides over 200 reports to international news media and is located in Rockefeller Center, New York City.

Their online news site is in Japanese, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean, and English.

The agency employs over 1,000 journalists and photographers, and maintains news exchange agreements with over 70 international media outlets.

Kyodo News was formed by Furuno Inosuke, the president of the Domei News Agency, following the dissolution of Domei after World War II.

In July 2025, the English language version of the online Kyodo News service was rebranded as Japan Wire by Kyodo News. It had been formerly known as Kyodo News Plus.

References

Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). ''News agencies from pigeon to internet.'' Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 208. {{ISBN. 978-1-932705-67-6.
Haru Matsukata Reischauer, "Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage", Harvard University Press, 1986, page 310
"We are rebranding!". Kyodo News.

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