“This agreement will supplement AFP’s daily pictorial coverage of Japan,” Lombardie said. He said that the partnership was an important step in advancing AFP’s strategy of making Imageforum a onestop shop for pictures by giving AFP clients the widest possible selection of images.
Yomiuri Managing Director and Managing Editor, Tamotsu Asami, said the agreement would allow the Yomiuri Shimbun to reach media organizations worldwide.
“This deal deepens the relationship between our two companies. We will supply Imageforum with high quality news photographs to accurately portray the Japan of today,” he said.
AFP’s Imageforum has some 16 million AFP images and seven million more from 34 partner newspapers and specialized picture agencies. It is used by thousands of newspapers, magazines, websites, book publishers and others.
The Yomiuri Shimbun is Japan’s largest Japanese language newspaper with a daily circulation of more than 10 million copies. It also publishes The Daily Yomiuri, an English language newspaper.
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