Editing Tokyo (section)

=== Media and communications ===
{{See also|Mass media in Japan}}
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Tokyo's position as the country's cultural, political, and economic hub has made its media industry the largest in Japan. A majority of national media companies are headquartered in Tokyo, as well as the Asian or Japanese branches of international media companies. The [[NHK]], the oldest and only nationwide public broadcaster in the country, is headquartered in [[Shibuya]]. Other national broadcasters,<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |date=2011-10-07 |title=Japan media guide |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-15217593 |access-date=2024-07-13 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB |archive-date=September 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902042447/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-15217593 |url-status=live }}</ref> such as [[TBS Television (Japan)|TBS]], [[Nippon Television]], [[Fuji Television]], and [[TV Asahi]], are also based in Tokyo. Of the [[Japanese newspapers|five major national newspapers]],<ref name=":5" /> ''[[The Nikkei]]'', [[Mainichi Shimbun|''The Mainichi'']], and [[Yomiuri Shimbun|''The Yomiuri'']] are headquartered in Tokyo, while the other two, [[The Asahi Shimbun|''The Asahi'']] and [[Sankei Shimbun|''The Sankei'']], maintain head offices both in Tokyo and [[Osaka]]. Major publishers based in Tokyo include [[Shueisha]], [[Kodansha]], [[Kadokawa Corporation|Kadokawa]], [[Shogakukan]], [[Bungeishunjū|Bungeishunju]], [[Shinchosha]], and [[Iwanami Shoten]], with a high concentration in [[Chiyoda, Tokyo|Chiyoda]] and [[Shinjuku]].

[[Dentsu]], [[Hakuhodo]], and [[Asatsu-DK|ADK Holdings]], all based in Tokyo, are the country's largest advertising agencies. All three major telecommunications companies in Japan, namely [[Nippon Telegraph and Telephone|NTT]] (whose market capitalization was once the largest among all publicly traded companies in the world),<ref name=":4" /> [[KDDI]], and [[SoftBank Group|SoftBank]], are based in Tokyo. Tokyo is also a major hub for anime production, with major anime studios such as [[Studio Ghibli]], [[Gainax]], [[Madhouse, Inc.|Madhouse]], [[A-1 Pictures]], [[MAPPA]], [[Wit Studio]], [[Toei Animation|Toei]], and [[Shaft (company)|Shaft]] based particularly in the west of the metropolis.