Kahoku Shimpo Online is the Japanese-language news site of Kahoku Shimpo Publishing, headquartered in Sendai. It focuses on Sendai and Miyagi while covering local news across the Tohoku region, including Aomori, Iwate, Akita, Yamagata, and Fukushima. Sections also cover politics and administration, business, society, sports, culture and daily life, education, and national and international news. The site features reporting on disaster preparedness and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, editorials and columns, long-running series, visual news, videos, photo features, and article rankings. Readers can find high-school entrance-exam information, submission forms, a podcast, and online-only columns among its regional projects. The homepage provides article search, access to morning and evening newspaper pages, and sign-up and login links; some articles and features are presented for members. The publisher notes that Kyodo News supplies national and international coverage. It is a digital edition for following Tohoku reporting alongside broader Japanese news.