Sports Nippon

Sports Nippon (スポーツニッポン), also known as Sponichi (スポニチ), is the first Japanese daily sports newspaper, having been founded in 1948. In a 1997 report it was called one of the "Big Three" sports papers in Japan, out of a field of 17 sports dailies.

It is an affiliate newspaper of the Mainichi Shimbun.