Sports Nippon - Wikipedia

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Sports Nippon
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) 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.