noun
Yomiuri Shimbun (Japanese newspaper company)
Proper noun referring to the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper company, one of Japan's major national newspapers.
読売新聞社は日本で最も発行部数の多い新聞社の一つです。
The Yomiuri Shimbun is one of the newspapers with the largest circulation in Japan.
The name is derived from the company's founding principle of selling newspapers by reading them aloud (読売). The exact historical derivation is straightforward; the spelling is conventionally associated with the company.