The Nikkei

The Nikkei, formally known as The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞, Japan Economics Newspaper), is Nikkei, Inc.'s flagship publication and the world's largest financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding three million. The Nikkei 225, a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange, has been calculated by the newspaper since 1950.[2]

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun
First issue ‘Chugai Bukka Shimpo’, 1876.
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Nikkei, Inc.
PublisherTsuneo Kita
Founded2 December 1876 (1876-12-02) (as The Nihon Keizai Shimbun)
Political alignmentCentre to centre-right
Liberal conservative
LanguageJapanese and English
HeadquartersTokyo, Japan
Circulation2,946,594 Morning
1,558,594 Evening[1]
Websitewww.nikkei.com
Nikkei headquarters on the left in Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo

The roots of the Nikei Yomiuri's career started with an in-house newspaper department of Mitsui & Company in 1876 when it started publication of Chugai Bukka Shimpo (literally Domestic and Foreign Commodity Price Newspaper), a weekly market-quotation bulletin. The department was spun out as the Shokyosha in 1882. The paper became daily (except Sunday) in 1885 and was renamed Chugai Shogyo Simpo in 1889. It was merged with Nikkan Kogyo and Keizai Jiji and renamed Nihon Sangyo Keizai Shimbun in 1942. The paper changed its name to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun in 1946.[3]

As of 30 November 2015 Nikkei became the official owner of the Financial Times, having bought the newspaper from Pearson PLC.[4]

It is one of the five national newspapers in Japan; the other four are the Asahi Shimbun, the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, and the Sankei Shimbun.

Holdings
Newspapers including Nihon Keizai Shimbun are displayed at station shops
Nikkei offices in Osaka

Nikkei Inc. specializes in publishing financial, business and industry news. Its main news publications include:

  • Financial Times, the London-headquartered daily newspaper.
  • Nikkei Asia, the company's flagship English-language business and politics journal that launched in November 2013.[5][6] It was previously known as the Nikkei Asian Review. [7]
  • Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞), a leading economic newspaper.
  • Nikkei Veritas (日経ヴェリタス), a weekly financial newspaper that replaced Nikkei Kinyu Shimbun (Nikkei Financial Daily) in March 2008.
  • Nikkei Business Daily (日経産業新聞, Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun), an industry newspaper
  • Nikkei Marketing Journal (日経MJ, Nikkei MJ), a commerce newspaper
  • Nikkei Weekly (日経ウィークリー), an English-language business newspaper

Nikkei sells these newspapers around the world, in their original languages and in translation. It also makes many of its Japanese articles available in English through wire services, an English language website, and a licensing agreement with LexisNexis.

In Japan the price of the newspaper Morning edition is 160 yen. The Afternoon edition is 70 yen and subscription is 4,509 yen/month (Morning and afternoon edition).

Nikkei agreed on 23 July 2015 to buy the UK-based FT Group, which includes business daily Financial Times, for the equivalent of $1.32 billion from Pearson PLC.[8][9]

On 30 November 2015, Nikkei completed acquisition of Financial Times from Pearson plc.[10]

Nikkei also owns TV Tokyo and Nikkei CNBC, which provides coverage of the Japanese market during trading hours and rebroadcasts CNBC during off-hours and weekends.

Nikkei Group affiliate companies

Major companies:

Hong Kong
Main article: Next Digital raid and arrests

On August 10, 2020 three Hong Kong police officers visited the Hong Kong branch of The Nikkei, armed with a court order. The reason being investigations over an advert placed in The Nikkei a year ago calling for international support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.[11]

See also

References
  1. ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations) Japan, average for July–December 2012
  2. Landers, Peter (July 23, 2015). "5 Things to Know About Nikkei". 5 Things (blog). The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 25, 2015.
  3. "History : COMPANY". nikkei.co.jp. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  4. "Nikkei completes acquisition of Financial Times". Nikkei.
  5. "Full ver. "SEE WHAT OTHERS DON'T" Nikkei Asian Review PV". Nikkei Asian Review. YouTube. 2013-11-20. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  6. Greenslade, Roy (2013-11-21). "Nikkei launches new Asian magazine". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2014-02-19.
  7. "Nikkei to rename flagship English publication 'Nikkei Asia'". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
  8. Mance, Henry; Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Khan (23 July 2015). "Nikkei to buy FT Group for £844m from Pearson". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 2 September 2015. (subscription required)
  9. Mance, Henry; Arash Massoudi and James Fontanella-Khan (23 July 2015). "Nikkei to buy FT Group for £844m from Pearson". CNBC. Financial Times. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  10. "Nikkei completes acquisition of Financial Times". Nikkei.
  11. https://www.france24.com/en/20200828-hong-kong-police-sift-the-past-to-pursue-new-security-law-crimes
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