Sports Hochi (スポーツ報知, Supōtsu Hōchi), previously known as Hochi Shimbun (報知新聞, Hōchi Shinbun), is a Japanese-language daily sports newspaper. In 2002, it had a circulation of a million copies a day.[citation needed]
Tokio, Sept. 19. A report that the Norddeutscher Lloyd liner Scharnhorst, now at Kobe, is being converted into an armed raider appears in the Hochi Shimbun. The paper adds the liner is surrounded by launches and there is much fuss and bustle aboard. This is taken by some observers as meaning she is being refitted as an armed vessel - Reuter.