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''World Journal'' () is a daily Chinese-language newspaper serving overseas Chinese in North America, the largest Chinese-language newspaper in the United States, and one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers outside of China, with a daily circulation of 350,000. The newspaper is headquartered in the Whitestone (白石) neighborhood of the borough of Queens in New York City.〔"(Contact Us ) ((Page in Chinese )) World Journal. Retrieved on November 19, 2011. "New York Headquarters 141-07 20th Ave. Whitestone, NY 11357"〕〔Machleder, Elaine. "(New World, New Look / Chinese-language daily gets a makeover )." ''Newsday''. March 30, 1998. A25 News. Retrieved on November 19, 2011. "Its headquarters and printing facilities have been in Whitestone since 1980()"〕 The ''World Journal'' is published in major cities containing large Chinese-speaking populations including New York City as well as Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and San Francisco in the United States, and Toronto and Vancouver in Canada.〔(World Journal - About Us )〕 In Los Angeles, it was formerly known as the ''Chinese Daily News''. The publication is widely sold in many Chinatowns in these cities and other major Chinese suburbs. Subscription by mail is also available throughout the U.S. and Canada. ==History== The newspaper began on February 12, 1976. Originally its headquarters were in Chinatown, Manhattan in New York City. The headquarters relocated to nearby Whitestone, Queens in 1980, where it has since remained.〔 The ''World Journal'' has the largest circulation among a Chinese American and Chinese Canadian readership. The publication is owned by the same media conglomerate that runs the ''United Daily News'' in Taiwan and carries a significant Taiwanese American administrative presence. Until the mid-1990s, it was viewed as very hostile to the People's Republic of China, in part because the paper referred to people from mainland China as "Communist Chinese". Furthermore, its coverage on mainland China usually comprised only one article or so each day out of dozens of pages and sections. However, the newspaper has changed substantially since it began increasing its coverage of mainland China. Following the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989, such coverage increased to two pages per day. A rapid shift to neutralism toward mainland China also occurred in the early 1990s as part of an attempt to expand its readership to recently arrived Chinese immigrants, including those who left the mainland after the expansion of access to green cards following the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989. The other reason for the rapid shift was rooted in the newspaper's sympathy to the Chinese democracy movement. The shift was further strengthened during the mid-1990s in part due to the new wave of mainland Chinese immigrants to North America and in part due to political developments in Taiwan, where multi-party elections have been allowed. Like its parent the ''United Daily News'', the ''World Journal'' is widely seen as taking an editorial line that favors the Pan-Blue coalition and the Kuomintang. It also opposes the Taiwanese independence ideology of the Pan-Green coalition. Consequently, this editorial position has made it much less hostile toward the People's Republic since the 1990s. Immediately after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the newspaper no longer referred indiscriminately to all mainland Chinese as "Communist Chinese," and additionally praised pro-democracy efforts on the mainland. During the mid-1990s, it began to give credit to the positive progress made in mainland China, and by the late-1990s, it began to criticize wrongdoings within the Chinese democracy movement and in the West in the same manner with which it criticizes corruption within the Chinese communist regime. After 2000, there has also been a marked increase in the representation of mainland Chinese immigrants on the newspaper's reporting staff. The anti-Taiwan independence editorial positions that the paper has taken have also made it popular among mainland Chinese immigrants to the United States. The newspaper has diversified in content and covers world business and politics, including proceedings at the United Nations Headquarters, as well as entertainment and human interest stories. However, in recent years the World Journal has been getting a lot of competition from a different Chinese newspaper called The "China Press". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Journal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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