Asahi

The Asahi Shimbun, first published in 1879, is one of the five national newspapers published in Japan.

In February, 1976, at the request of the editors wishing to tackle a complicated social problem, Osamu Tezuka penned the Astro Boy one-shot, "Showdown in the Standard Deviation Kingdom, which ran in the weekly Asahi supplement magazine, Skukan Asahi.