Sankei Shimbun

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Corporate profileEdit

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).

HistoryEdit

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.<ref name="company history">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 1958, the Sankei was acquired by Shigeo Mizuno and Nobutaka Shikanai. After financial difficulties, it changed direction from being liberal to being conservative (Tenkō). Both Mizuno and Shikanai would go on to found Fuji Television a year later.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The Sankei Shimbun started two online newspapers in 1996: Sankei Web, in website style, and E-NEWS, in personal digital assistant style. In 2001, the Sankei Shimbun started a new electronic newspaper delivery edition, NEWSVUE. In 2002, the Sankei Shimbun merged with Osaka Shimbun. Both editions were placed under the Sankei Shimbun masthead. In 2005, the Sankei Shimbun added video to its digital edition, suitable for smartphone, and renamed it as Sankei NetView. In 2007, the Sankei Shimbun started a new online newspaper, Template:Interlanguage link, in collaboration with Microsoft. In 2014 the Sankei Shimbun rebranded its online news as Sankei News.<ref name="company history"/>

In 2017, Sankei Shimbun launched the English language online website Japan Forward.

OwnershipEdit

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Political stanceEdit

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ControversiesEdit

Template:Anti-Korean sentiment in Japan In August 2014, South Korea filed suit against the Sankei for insults against president Park Geun-hye, published in one of the newspaper's articles, and demanded Tatsuya Kato, head of the Seoul Bureau, present himself for questioning.<ref>http://www.koreaherald.com/view.phpōud=20140810000273 Template:Dead link</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The article in question covered several rumors about Park during the sinking of MV Sewol, referring to Korean news reports in the conservative newspaper The Chosun Ilbo; however, only the Sankei was charged with defamation, considered an anti-Korean newspaper in Korea.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Japanese media assumed the suit was a warning to the Sankei.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Kato, who was eventually acquitted of defamation charges in December 2015, was under prosecution without detention for a year and two months.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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 antisemitic books by conspiracy theorist Richard Koshimizu.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In July 2015, Sankei Shimbun published the history book History Wars: Japan – False Indictment of the Century, which questioned the veracity of claims of Japanese war crimes during World War II.<ref name=":02">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In September 2015, several hundred academics and journalists were sent copies of History Wars and Getting Over it! Why Korea Needs to Stop Bashing Japan. The book mailings were part of a project by right-wing groups such as the Nippon Kaigi to improve international perceptions of Japan.<ref name=":0" /> A covering letter from politician Inoguchi Kuniko read in part: "In East Asia, the regional history of the 20th century has been incorrectly distortedTemplate:Sic by some individuals due to their current domestic political ambitions, I believe it is important for you, as a highly esteemed member of the academic and policy circlesTemplate:Sic, to look into the books which I am enclosing with this letter."<ref name=":0" />

Sankei Award, Sankei PrizeEdit

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PhilanthropyEdit

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OfficesEdit

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Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd's headquarters in Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo

Tokyo Head Office (registered headquarters): 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 (Fukuoka): Sunlight Building, 5-23-8, Watanabe-dori, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka