The Mainichi desk editor Robert Sakai-Irvine is seen at The Mainichi Newspapers' head office in Tokyo.... The Mainichi was founded in Osaka in April 1922, on the occasion then Edward Prince of Wales's visit to Japan, and after nearly eight decades in print went exclusively online in April 2001.... Despite this shift from newsprint to pixels, the mission of The Mainichi has remained the same: to get accurate news about Japan gathered by local reporters out to the world....