The "Yomiuri Shimbun" Has a Daily Audited Circulation Greater than Ten Million Printed Copies

In 1994 the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper in Japan achieved a daily audited circulation greater than 10 million printed copies. By 2011 print circulation increased in spite of the growth of digital media.

"Founded in 1874,^[6] the Yomiuri Shimbun is credited with having the largest newspaper circulation in the world,^[7][8] having a combined morning and evening circulation of 14,323,781 through January 2002. In 2010, the daily was the number one in the list of the world's biggest selling newspapers with a circulation of 10,021,000.^[9] As of mid-year 2011, it still had a combined morning-evening circulation of almost 13.5 million for its national edition.^[10] The paper is printed twice a day and in several different local editions" (Wikipedia article Yomiuri Shimbun, accessed 7-2019).