Process for producing bleached pulp

A method for producing bleached pulp, including processing unbleached pulp obtained by cooking a lignocellulose substance, followed by treatment with peroxomonosulfuric acid and thereafter by multistage chlorine-free bleaching treatment starting from chlorine dioxide treatment; a method for producing bleached pulp, including processing unbleached pulp for alkali-oxygen bleaching followed by chlorine-free bleaching treatment or totally chlorine-free bleaching treatment to bleach it to a degree of brightness of from 70 to 89%, and further followed by treatment with peroxomonosulfuric acid; and paper produced by the use of the bleached pulp produced according to these production methods, at a papermaking pH of at most 6.