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
Source: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
- Sankei Shimbun, a leading national newspaper.
- FujiSankei Business i, a industry & business & economy newspaper that renamed Nihon Kogyo Shimbun in March 2004.
- Sankei Sports, a leading Japanese daily sports newspaper since 1955.
- Yukan Fuji, a leading Japanese daily evening newspaper since 1969.
- Keiba Eight, a leading horse racing newspaper since 1971.
- Osaka Shimbun, a Kansai regional evening newspaper.
- Sankei Express, a targeted at young people newspaper founded in 2006.
Political stance
Sankei Award, Sankei Prize
- Praemium Imperiale - This, International art prize awarded since 1989 by the imperial family of Japan on behalf of the Japan Art Association in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theatre/film.
- Tokyo Police Officers Prize - Major Award in Japan, since 1952.
- Peoples' Self-Defense Officials Prize - Self-Defense Officials Commendation Award in Japan, since 2002.
- Sankei Children's Book Award - Major and the oldest Children's literature Award in Japan.
- Naniwa Art Festival - Major traditional culture Award, Buyō in Japan, since 1964.
- Sankei International Calligraphic Art Exhibition - Major Kanji Award in Japan, since 1984.
Philanthropy
- Akemi Chan Fund - is a Japan-based Medical Fund for the poor children suffering heart troubles.
- Sankei shimbun social welfare association - is a nonprofit organization in Japan.
Offices
- Tokyo Head Office : Tokyo Sankei Building, 1-7-2, Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
- Osaka Head Office: Namba Sankei Building, 2-1-57, Minatomachi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka
- * Umeda Office: Breeze Tower, 2-4-9, Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka
- Western Office : Sunlight Building, 5-23-8, Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka
Sankei Group affiliate companies
- Fujisankei Communications Group
- Fuji Television - Fuji Television Network, Inc. is a Major Japanese television station, also known as Fuji TV or CX. It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the Fuji Network System.
- Kansai Telecasting Corporation
- Osaka Broadcasting Corporation - Osaka Broadcasting Corporation is a leading AM radio station of National Radio Network in Osaka, Japan, and it is known as "Radio Osaka ".
- FM 802 - FM802 is a leading FM radio station in Kansai,Japan.
- FM COCOLO - FM Cocolo is a multilingual FM radio station owned and operated by FM 802 Co., Ltd
- Iwate Menkoi Television - Iwate area
- Sendai Television - Miyagi area
- Fukushima Television Broadcasting - Fukushima area
- Niigata Sogo Television - Niigata area
- Nagano Broadcasting Systems - Nagano area television station
- TV Shizuoka - Shizuoka area television station
- Okayama Broadcasting - Okayama area television station
- Ehime Broadcasting - Ehime area television station
- Shinhiroshima Telecasting - Hiroshima area television station
- Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting - Kochi area television station
- Tokyo Tower - Hisakichi Maeda was the tower's founder and owner.
- FM Osaka - The owner is Hisakichi Maeda's family.
- Japan Airlines - Descendants of Sankei Shimbun Aviation Department 産経新聞航空部
Notable corporate alumni
- Yoshirō Mori, the President of Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. the 85th and 86th Prime Minister of Japan.
- Fukushiro Nukaga, former Minister of Finance of Japan
- Eriko Yamatani, politician.former Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, former Minister for the Abduction Issue
- Tsuneo Kitamura, politician. House of Councillors
- Kenta Matsunami, politician. House of Representatives
- Hiroshi Nakatsuka, Japanese politician. Former mayor of Hirakara.
- Shoko Yamaguchi, Legion of Honour in 2013.
- Ryōtarō Shiba, author
- Sakunosuke Oda, author
- Ikko Tanaka, graphic designer worked at 1964 Summer Olympics, Expo '70, Expo '85, Expo '90
- Masami Abe, first reported the abduction of Japanese nationals by the North Korean regime in 1979, for which he was awarded the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association Award.
- Tsutomu Saitō, Chief operating officer at Sankei. He scooped the Dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990
- Katsuhiro Kuroda, columnist at Sankei, in Seoul Branch
- Yoshihisa Komori, columnist at Sankei, in Washington, D.C. Branch
- Tatsuya Kato, columnist at Sankei, former chief of Seoul branch
- Ayari Aoyama, writer at sankei. She is butterfly swimmer, at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Monta Mino, radio and television announcer
Controversy
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.