新解国語辞典
First edition：1982
Last edition：1998 (second edition)
Publisher：小学館
Number of words：49000 words
Number of pages : 1031 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-4095016023
While this isn’t a dictionary I would recommend, it has a few things setting itself somewhat apart from the rest. It touts itself on the huge amount of information presented regarding honorifics, so if that is something you are interested in this could very well be the dictionary for you. (Though there are other dictionaries dealing with this subject coming in later posts). Even for a small dictionary the headword count is on the lower end of the spectrum. They have some articles on historical events (the lines between Japanese dictionaries and encyclopaedia can be considered blurry at best 
), but that’s not a feature I would personally select a dictionary for.
If you have bad eyesight but still want to use paper dictionaries instead of a digital one, this might be for you as they have a bigger (7 point) font, compared to other dictionaries.