Top 10 Best Selling Newspapers

8. The Asahi Shimbun (Japan)

One of Japan’s oldest and largest national daily newspapers, the Asahi Shimbun (Asahi News) began publication in Osaka on 25 January 1879 as a small-print, four-page illustrated paper that sold for one sen (a hundredth of a yen) a copy, and had a circulation of approximately 3,000 copies.