It was usually eight pages and editions ran an average of 5,000 to 6,000 copies.
Its daily edition runs between 270,000 and 300,000 units per day.
It used to be that in some cases an edition would run unchanged for five years or more.
The first edition of the cup ran from 1965 to 1970 as a four team mini-league.
This year's edition runs from June 12 through 17.
The Japanese edition ran from at least 1982 to 1989.
The 1987 edition, which has many photographs, runs to 216 pages.
The final edition ran from 3 to 6 July 2009 at the same location.
The second edition had run into five million copies, but that was not enough for a country of this size.
It has been estimated that each edition after 1800 probably ran to over 30,000 copies.