The Tokyo Shimbun (東京新聞, "Tōkyō Shinbun", literally "Tokyo Newspaper") is a Japanese newspaper published by The Chunichi Shimbun Company. The group publishes newspapers under the brand name of The Tokyo Shimbun in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area and under The Chunichi Shimbun in the Nagoya Metropolitan Area. The group's combined daily morning circulation is 3.5 million. As of July 2008, according to the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the average daily circulation of "The Tokyo Shimbun"s morning edition was 620,125 and its evening edition sold 309,387 copies daily.