Sankei Shimbun


Sankei Shimbun is a daily newspaper in Japan published by the It has the sixth highest circulation for a newspapers in Japan, and is considered one of the five leading "national" newspapers.

Corporate profile

The Sankei Shimbun is part of the Fujisankei Communications Group and is 40% owned by Fuji Media Holdings. The company is also the owner of Osaka Broadcasting Corporation.

History

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The history of the Sankei Shimbun began with the founding of two old newspapers: Jiji News and Nihon Kogyō Shimbun.
Jiji News was founded first in 1882 by Fukuzawa Yukichi who was a Japanese author, translator, journalist and founder of Keio University.
Nihon Kogyō Shimbun was founded second in 1933 by Hisakichi Maeda. The newspaper specialized in industrial, business, and economic affairs, and was published by The Minami-OSAKA Shimbun.
In 1941, Osaka Shimbun merged the Osaka Jiji shimpō. The following year, Nihon Kogyō Shimbun merged the other newspapers in business and industrial affairs in Western Japan, and changed its name to the Sangyō Keizai Shimbun.
In 1952, the Sankei hired a female writer for the first time in the newspapers in Japan. In 1955, The Sankei merged Jiji shimpō.
In 1958, the Sankei was acquired by Shigeo Mizuno and Nobutaka Shikanai. The Sankei became financial crisis. helped by financial world, changed direction from Liberalism for Conservatism.
In 1959, the Sankei and Jiji shimpō were placed under a Sankei Shimbun masthead.
In 1960, Mizuno and Shikanai founded Fuji Television too.
The Sankei Shimbun started two online newspapers in 1996: Sankei Web, with website style, and :ja:E-NEWS|E-NEWS, with personal digital assistant style. In 2001, the Sankei Shimbun started a new electronic newspaper delivery edition, NEWSVUE.
In 2002, the Sankei Shimbun merged Osaka Shimbun. Both editions were placed under the Sankei Shimbun masthead.
In 2005, the Sankei Shimbun renewed its digital edition with movie, suitable for smartphone, and renamed Sankei NetView. In 2007, the Sankei Shimbun started a new online newspaper, MSN Sankei news, in collaboration with Microsoft.
In 2014, the Sankei Shimbun rebranded its online news as Sankei News.

Ownership

The Sankei Shimbun is a nationalist and conservative newspaper. Some media outlets even reported Sankei Shimbun as far-right newspapers.

Sankei Award, Sankei Prize

In August 2014, South Korea filed suit against Sankei for insults against Park Geun-hye, the president of South Korea, and demanded Tatsuya Kato, head of the Seoul Bureau, present himself for questioning. The article was about several rumors about Park during the Sinking of the MV Sewol, referring to Korean news reports. Sankei referred to Chosun Ilbo; however, only Sankei was charged with defamation. Sankei was considered an anti-Korean newspaper in Korea. Thus, Japanese media assumed the suit was a warning to Sankei.Kato, who was eventually acquitted of defamation charges in December 2015, was under prosecution without detention for a year and two months. The South Korean court said press freedoms were taken into consideration in arriving at Kato's acquittal.
In December 2014, the newspaper apologized after running Richard Koshimizu's ad promoting anti-Semitic books.
On February 11, 2015, regular columnist Ayako Sono wrote an opinion piece suggesting that while it will be necessary for Japan to accept more immigrants in order to bolster a decreasing workforce, Japan should take steps to ensure the separation of immigrants in regards to living conditions, citing South African apartheid as an example of how to achieve this goal.