Sankei Shimbun

The Sankei Shimbun

Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Blanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)
Owner(s)	Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. (mostly owned by Fuji Media Holdings)
Publisher	Takamitsu Kumasaka
Founded	March 1, 1882 (as Jiji News); June 20, 1933 (as Nihon Kogyo Shimbun)
Political alignment	Conservatism Nationalism Far-right to right
Language	Japanese
Headquarters	Tokyo Osaka
Circulation	Morning edition: 844,000 Evening edition: 212,000 (ABC Japan, In August 2024)
Website	www.sankei.com

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Principles Anti-communism Asian values Authority Bureaucracy Bushido Discipline Duty Elitism Aristocracy Meritocracy Familialism Filial piety Heroism Hierarchy Imperialism Japanese culture Japanization Kokutai Law and order Loyalty Monarchism Bansei ikkei Nativism Nihonjinron Patriotism Shinto Social order Sovereignty Tradition Wa
History Meiji oligarchy Satsuma Rebellion Imperial Rescript on Education Peace Preservation Law Anti-Comintern Pact CIA activities in Japan Red Scare Red Purge 1955 System U.S.-Japan Security Treaty Abenomics State Secrecy Law
Intellectuals Aida Etō Fukuda Fujii (Satoshi) Fujii (Genki) Hasuda Hayashi (Kentarō) Hayashi (Ōen) Hirata Hyakuta Inoue Kanokogi Koizumi Kobayashi Kōsaka Kuga Mayuzumi Motoori Mori Minobe Mizushima Mishima Miyake Nakano Natsume Nishibe Nishimura Nishio Nitobe Okakura Oh Okazaki Ōkawa Orikuchi Oshikawa Sakurai Shimazaki Shiono Shiga Shimao Sono Sugiyama Suzuki Takayama Takeyama Tsunoda Watsuji Watanabe Yamamoto Yamazaki Yoshikawa Yasuoka Yatsuka Yanagita
Literature Man'yōshū (759) Kokin Wakashū (905) Hagakure (recorded 1709–1716) Imperial Rescript on Education (1890) Bushido: The Soul of Japan (1899) The Book of Tea (1906) Patriotism (1960) Sun and Steel (1968) ”The Japan That Can Say No” (1989) The Dignity of the Nation (2005)
Politicians Abe Asō Fukuda Hara Hashimoto Hatoyama Hiranuma (Kiichirō) Hiranuma (Takeo) Hirohito Hyakuta Inada Inoue Ishiba (Shigeru) Ishiba (Jirō) Ishihara Itō Kamiya Kaneko Katsura Kawamura Kishi Kishida Koike Koizumi (Junichiro) Koizumi (Shinjirō) Mori Makino Nakagawa Nakasone Ōhira Ōkubo Saigō Saionji Suga Sugita Takaichi Tamaki Tojo (Hideki) Tojo (Yuko) Yamagata Yoshida
Parties Active Conservative Party of Japan Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (rignt-wing factions) Kaseikai Democratic Party For the People Greater Japan Patriotic Party Happiness Realization Party Japan First Party Japan Innovation Party Osaka Restoration Association Komeito Liberal Democratic Party Tokyoites First Party Restoration Political Party Sanseitō Defunct Constitutional Government Association Imperial Rule Assistance Association Japan Renewal Party Japan Restoration Party New Conservative Party New Frontier Party Party for Japanese Kokoro Party of Hope People's New Party Sunrise Party
Alliances LDP–JIP coalition LDP–Komeito coalition
Organisations Active Ganbare Nippon Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform Nippon Kaigi Zaitokukai Conservative Political Action Conference (J-CPAC) Defunct Black Dragon Society Genyōsha Kenkokukai Kokuryūkai Sakurakai Tatenokai Tōseiha
Media Bungei Shunjū Shokun! Fujisankei Communications Group Fuji Television Nippon Broadcasting System Sankei Shimbun Seiron Hanada Japanese Culture Channel Sakura Nihon Keizai Shimbun Shūkan Shinchō WiLL The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings Yomiuri Shimbun Chūō Kōron
Movements Action Conservative Movement Anti-Americanism Green Kaikaku hoshu Minzoku-ha Netto-uyoku National essentialism Nihon shugi Shukyū-ha Shōwa Restoration Trumpism
Related ideologies Fascism Emperor-system Para- Historical negationism History textbooks Liberalism Classical Conservative Libertarian conservatism (factions) Reactionism Statism Corporate
Related topics Anti-national sentiments Chinese Korean Kurdish Russian Anti-PRC sentiment Constitutional reform in Japan Emperor system Nobility Daimyo Kazoku Kuge Samurai Kokugaku Politics in Japan Pro-Americanism (post-war) Pro-ROC sentiment (post-war) Satō–Kishi–Abe family Tenkō Uyoku dantai Yamato nadeshiko Zaibatsu
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History 1950s 1955 System Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 Hatomander U.S.-Japan Security Treaty 1960s Anpo protests Miike Struggle Income Doubling Plan Three Non-Nuclear Principles Sanrizuka Struggle 1968–1969 Japanese university protests 1970s Okinawa Reversion Agreement Japan–China Joint Communiqué Lockheed bribery scandals Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China Fukuda Doctrine 1980s Railway privatization Plaza Accord Recruit scandal Japanese asset price bubble 1990s Kono Statement Murayama Statement 1993 general election 1994 electoral reform Lost Decades Obuchinomics 2000s 2001 Central Government Reform Honebuto no hōshin Postal service privatization 2009 general election 2010s Abenomics 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami State Secrecy Law Reinterpretation of Article 9 Moritomo Gakuen scandal 2020s Assassination of Shinzo Abe 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal 2026 general election
Factions Active Shikōkai Defunct Heisei Kenkyūkai Kōchikai Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai Shisuikai
Media Sankei Shimbun Fujisankei Communications Group
Related organizations Association of Shinto Shrines Unification Church Central Intelligence Agency Dentsu Japan Business Federation Nippon Kaigi Japan lobby Japan Medical Association Junior Chamber International Japan Koenkai Pasona
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The Sankei Shimbun (産経新聞), name short for Sangyō Keizai Shinbun (産業経済新聞, lit. 'Industrial and Economic News'), is a daily national newspaper in Japan published by the Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd, ranking amongst the top five most circulated newspapers in Japan. Together with its English-language paper Japan Forward, the Sankei Shimbun has been described as having a conservative, nationalist, far-right political stance. It has previously published materials downplaying or denying Japanese war crimes.