Sports Hochi

Sports Hochi (スポーツ報知), previously known as Hochi Shimbun (報知新聞), is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day.

It is an affiliate newspaper of Yomiuri Shimbun.

19 September 1939: SS Scharnhorst
The Hochi Shimbun newspaper was mentioned in an article in The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser on September 20, 1939 concerning the conversion of the SS Scharnhorst into the escort carrier Shin'yō by the Imperial Japanese Navy.