{{short description|Japanese news agency}}{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Expand Japanese|共同通信社|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox company | name = Kyodo News | logo = Kyodo_News_logo.svg | former_name = Domei News Agency | image = 260px|border | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Shiodome Media Tower, headquarters of Kyodo News in Minato, Tokyo, Japan | type = Nonprofit cooperative news agency | founded = {{Start date and age|1945}} | founder = Furuno Inosuke | area_served = Japan and worldwide | key_people = Toshimitsu Sawai<br>(President) | industry = News agency | revenue = | location = Tokyo, Minato-ku, Higashi-Shimbashi 1-chome No. 7 No. 1 | operating_income = 40.7 billion yen (Fiscal year ended March 2012) | net_income = | num_employees = 1,621 ({{asof|2022|4|1|lc=y|df=US}}) | subsid = Kyodo News International | parent = | homepage = {{official URL}} | footnotes = }}
{{Nihongo|'''Kyodo News'''|共同通信社|Kyōdō Tsūshinsha}} 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.<ref name=s214>Shrivastava, K. M. (2007). ''News agencies from pigeon to internet.'' Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. p. 208. {{ISBN|978-1-932705-67-6}}.</ref> 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.<ref name=s214/>
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.<ref name=s214/>
Kyodo News was formed by Furuno Inosuke, the president of the Domei News Agency, following the dissolution of Domei after World War II.<ref>Haru Matsukata Reischauer, "Samurai and Silk: A Japanese and American Heritage", Harvard University Press, 1986, page 310</ref>
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'''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://english.kyodonews.net/announcement.html|title=We are rebranding!|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250627053404/https://english.kyodonews.net/announcement.html|publisher=Kyodo News|archive-date=27 June 2025|access-date=17 January 2026}}</ref>
== See also == * {{Portal-inline|Economics}} * {{Portal-inline|Journalism}} * {{Portal-inline|Politics}}
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== External links ==
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Kyodo News * [https://english.kyodonews.net/ Official news site - Japan Wire by Kyodo News (ジャパンワイヤー)] (English) * [https://www.47news.jp/ Official news site] (Japanese) * [http://www.kyodonews.jp/english/ Official corporate site] (English) * [http://www.kyodonews.jp/ Official corporate site] (Japanese)
K. K. Kyodo News * [http://www.kyodo.co.jp/ Official site (Japanese)]
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