Hokkaido Shimbun


The Hokkaido Shimbun, which is often abbreviated as Doshin, is a Japanese language daily newspaper published mainly in Hokkaidō, Japan by The Hokkaido Shimbun Press. As of November 2006, its morning edition has a circulation of 1,208,175. It was first published in Sapporo in 1887.

2015 Sexual harassment suicide

At a 2014 year-end party a part-time nurse at the paper was sexually harassed by two members of the staff from the paper's general affairs department. Two months later she killed herself, after sending criticisms of the paper to 13 news organisations. The woman's family considered the paper to be responsible, and filed criminal complaints against the two staff members.