The Chugoku Shimbun was established as a local newspaper, "The Daily Chugoku" on May 5th, 1892 at Otemachi 4-chome，Hiroshima．The editor, Saburo Yamamoto, was also one of the founders．Early editions covered central and local political news, the Hiroshima rice market price，an editorial，a contemporary novel, and occasionally carried overseas news．

The newspaper changed its name to "The Chugoku Shimbun" at its 5,000th edition in 1908．On the 35th anniversary, in 1926，the headquarters was moved into a new building in Kaminagarekawa-cho(present by Ebisu-machi)．It made remarkable progress, overpowering other local papers．

On August 6th in 1945，the paper lost 113 employees in an instant in the blast of the A-Bomb．However, their mission and eagerness to report the news encouraged the surviving staff and they started to rebuild Chugoku Shimbun from the next day, the 7th. They were able to start publishing as early as the 9th by asking a printing company to print the papers．

After the war，The Chugoku Shimbun worked for Hiroshima's revival from the ruins and development, moving into a new building in present Dohashi-cho next to The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in 1969. It constructed a printing factory，"Inokuchi Factory" in Shoko Center in Nishiku in 1983 which boasted the finest equipment in the country．The Chugoku Shimbun started the newspaper publishing system, "Phoenix" using a computer and editing the papers without type beginning in August 1987. Based on files, documents, articles, and pictures stored in this system, we recently formed the paper's past articles into database, such as "the A-Bomb database", to make them accessible to Internet and other multimedia formats.