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First Publication of Chugai Bukka Shimpo

When
1876
Where
Tokyo
Part of
Chugai Economic Daily first issued in Tokyo

Mitsui & Company's in-house newspaper department began publishing the weekly market-quotation bulletin Chugai Bukka Shimpo in 1876.

The roots of the Nikkei started in 1876 when an in-house newspaper department of Mitsui & Company started publication of Chugai Bukka Shimpo, literally Domestic and Foreign Commodity Price Newspaper. This was a weekly market-quotation bulletin, marking the first publication of the entity that would become Nikkei, Inc.

Sources

  1. The Nikkei Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-09
  2. Nikkei, Inc. Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-09
  3. Tokyo Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-26

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