What is Asahi Shinbun?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Asahi Shimbun | logo = [[File:The Asahi Shimbun logo.svg|240px]] | image = [[File:Asahi-Shimbun-First-Issue-Front-Page-January 25-1879.png|260px|border]] | caption = First issue on 25 January 1879 | type = [[Daily newspaper]]<br>''Company type: [[Privately held company|Private]]'' | format = [[Broadsheet]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asahi.com/shimbun/honsya/j/number.html|title=数字で見る朝日新聞|publisher=Asahi|access-date=31 March 2011}}</ref> | foundation = 25 January 1879 | founder = {{ill|Murayama Ryōhei|ja|村山龍平}}<br>{{ill|Ueno Riichi|ja|上野理一}} | owners = [[Share repurchase|Repurchased shares]] (25%)<br>Murayama family (21.02%; 10% through the KOSETSU Museum of Art)<br>Ueno family (total 14.22% by Shōichi Ueno's death in 2016)<br>[[TV Asahi]] (11.88%)<br>[[Toppan]] (7.31%)<br>[[Asahi Broadcasting Corporation|Asahi Broadcasting Group Holdcorp]] (2.31%) | political = [[Centre-left]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30241569 |title=Japan paper Yomiuri Shimbun retracts 'sex slaves' references |quote=In August the left-of-centre Asahi newspaper retracted a series of articles it had published about the comfort women issue based on the testimony of a Japanese author Seiji Yoshida. |date=28 November 2014|access-date=21 February 2020|publisher=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2014/09/20/gotcha |title=The press in Japan - Gotcha |quote=The Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading left-of-centre newspaper, with a circulation of 7.3m, is battling for its reputation after a third embarrassing ...|date=20 September 2014|access-date=21 February 2020|newspaper=[[The Economist]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/30/japan-pm-overturn-pacifist-defence-policy-shinzo-abe |title=Japan PM to overturn pacifist defence policy |quote=The left-of-centre Asahi Shimbun accused Abe of