Sankei Shimbun

The Sankei Shimbun (産経新聞, Sankei Shinbun), name short for Sangyō Keizai Shinbun (産業経済新聞, lit. "Industrial and Economic News"), is a daily national newspaper^[12] in Japan published by the Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd, ranking amongst the top 5 most circulated newspapers in Japan.^[13]

It and its English-language paper Japan Forward have been described as having a far-right^{[14][15][16][17]} or right-wing^[18] political stance. It has previously published books denying the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II,^[19] and has expressed skepticism that the Kantō Massacre occurred.^[20]

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 (OBC, Radio Osaka).

History

The Sankei Shimbun was created by the merger of two older newspapers: Jiji News and Nihon Kogyō Shimbun. Jiji News was founded in 1882 by author, translator, and journalist Fukuzawa Yukichi, who also founded Keio University. Nihon Kogyō Shimbun, founded in 1933 by Hisakichi Maeda, specialized in business and was published by the Minami-Osaka Shimbun (the South Osaka Evening newspaper). In 1941, the Osaka Shimbun (renamed from Minami-Osaka Shimbun) merged with Osaka Jiji Shimpō (Jiji-Shimpō Osaka edition). The following year, Nihon Kogyō Shimbun merged with other business newspapers in Western Japan, and changed its name to the Sangyō Keizai Shimbun (or the Sankei). In 1955, the Sankei merged with Jiji Shimpō. In 1959, the Sankei and Jiji Shimpō were placed under the Sankei Shimbun masthead.^[21]

In 1958, the Sankei was acquired by Shigeo Mizuno and Nobutaka Shikanai. After financial difficulties, it changed direction from being liberal to being conservative (

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The Sankei Shimbun is a nationalist^{[24][25][26][27][28]} and conservative^[2][3][4][5] newspaper. Some book and media outlets have called the Sankei Shimbun a far-right newspaper;^[15][16][17] the Sankei Shimbun has previously published books denying the atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.^[19] The Sankei has expressed skepticism that the Kantō Massacre occurred.^[20]

Sankei Award, Sankei Prize

• Imperial family of Japan
  on behalf of the Japan Art Association in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, theatre and film.
• Tokyo Police Officers Prize (都民の警察官, Tomin no Keisatsukan) – An award founded in 1952.
• Peoples' Self-Defense Officials Prize (国民の自衛官, Kokumin no Jieikan) – An award commendating self-defense officials^[clarify] founded in 2002.
• Sankei Children's Book Award (産経児童出版文化賞, Sankei jidou shuppan bunka Shō) – The oldest children's literature award in Japan.
• Naniwa Art Festival (なにわ藝術祭, Naniwa Geijutu Sai)
  buyō (Japanese dance), modern dance, classical music and jazz
  , awarded since 1964.
• Sankei International Calligraphic Art Exhibition (産経国際書展, Sankei Kokusai Sho-Ten) – A major kanji (Japanese calligraphy) award founded in 1984.

Philanthropy

• Akemi Chan Fund (明美ちゃん基金, Akemi Chan Kikin) – a medical fund set up in Japan for impoverished children with
  heart defects.^[29]
• Sankei Social Welfare Association (産経新聞厚生文化事業団, Sankei Kousei bunka jigyodan) – a nonprofit organization for societal welfare.[30]

Offices

• Tokyo Head Office (registered headquarters):
  Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
• Osaka Head Office: Namba Sankei Building, 2(Nichome)-1-57, Minatomachi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka
  • Umeda Office: Breeze Tower, 2(Nichome)-4-9, Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka
• Western Office (Fukuoka): Sunlight Building, 5-23-8, Watanabe-dori,
  Chuo-ku
  , Fukuoka

Sankei Group affiliate companies

• Fujisankei Communications Group
• flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System
  .
• Kansai Telecasting Corporation
• Osaka Broadcasting Corporation – Osaka Broadcasting Corporation (大阪放送株式会社, Osaka Hoso Kabushiki-gaisha, OBC) is an AM radio station of National Radio Network (NRN) in Osaka, Japan, also known as Radio Osaka (ラジオ大阪, Rajio Osaka).
• Kansai
  , Japan.
• 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
  area television station
• Shinhiroshima Telecasting – Hiroshima area television station
• Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting – Kochi area television station
• Tokyo Tower – Hisakichi Maeda (前田 久吉) was the tower's founder and owner.
• FM Osaka – The owner is Hisakichi Maeda's family.
• Japan Airlines – Descendants of Sankei Shimbun Aviation Department Sankei Shimbun koukubu (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
• Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission (Japan), former Minister for the Abduction Issue
• House of Councillors (Japan)
• Kenta Matsunami, politician serving in the House of Representatives (Japan)
• Hirakara
  .
• Shoko Yamaguchi, Legion of Honour in 2013.
• Ryōtarō Shiba, author
• Sakunosuke Oda, author
• 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.^[31]
• 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 (South Korea)
• Yoshihisa Komori, columnist at Sankei, in Washington, D.C. Branch (United States)
• Tatsuya Kato (journalist), columnist at Sankei, former chief of Seoul branch
• butterfly swimmer, at the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Monta Mino, radio and television announcer
• Masato Kimura, freelance journalist, former chief of London Branch (United Kingdom)

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In August 2014,

Sinking of the MV Sewol, referring to Korean news reports in the Chosun Ilbo; however, only the Sankei was charged with defamation, considered an anti-Korean newspaper in Korea.^[37] The Japanese media assumed the suit was a warning to the Sankei.^[38][39] Kato, who was eventually acquitted of defamation charges in December 2015, was under prosecution without detention for a year and two months.^[40]

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 an advert for Richard Koshimizu promoting antisemitic books.^[41][42]

On February 11, 2015, regular columnist Ayako Sono wrote an opinion piece opining that though she considered it necessary for Japan to accept more immigrants to bolster its decreasing workforce, it would also be necessary for Japan to 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.^[43][44][45]

See also

• Anti-Korean sentiment in Japan
• Praemium Imperiale
• Tokyo Marathon
• Osaka International Ladies Marathon
• Japanese media
• Nippon Kaigi
• Japan Institute for National Fundamentals – Yoshiko Sakurai

Notes

1. ^ The paper's evening edition is published only for the Kansai region.
2. ^ 'Naniwa' refers to the place that became the modern Japanese city of Osaka.

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External links

• 産経ニュース (in Japanese), Sankei News, website since 2014.
• MSN産経ニュース (in Japanese), MSN Sankei News, website in MSN Japan since 2007 till 2014.
• JAPAN Forward -REAL ISSUES, REAL VOICE, REAL JAPAN- English edition of SANKEI, since 2021.