is a daily newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 published by the . It has the sixth highest circulation for a newspaper in Japan, and is considered as one of the five "national" newspapers. Sankei Shimbun's name literally means "Industrial and Economic Newspaper".

On 1 October 2007, Sankei Shimbun's website and MSN Japan

Microsoft Japan

Microsoft Japan, officially , is a division of the United States-based computer technology corporation Microsoft based in Japan. The headquarters is in a skyscraper in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo.-External links:...

 started a content partnership, MSN Sankei News.

Corporate profile

The Sankei Shimbun is part of the Fujisankei Communications Group

Fujisankei Communications Group

, abbreviated FCG, is a keiretsu in Japan. This media conglomerate was founded by Nobutaka Shikanai. In 1991, it was the fourth-largest media company in the world and the largest one in Japan. In the same year, the company's yearly revenue was $5 billion....

 and is 40% owned by Fuji TV. The company is also the owner of Osaka Broadcasting Corporation

Osaka Broadcasting Corporation

is an AM radio station of National Radio Network in Osaka, Japan, and it is known as "Radio Osaka ". It is also a company of Sankei Shimbun Group in Fujisankei Communications Group...

 (OBC, Radio Osaka).

The Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd.

• Publishing newspapers: Sankei Shimbun, Sankei Sports
  Sankei Sports
  is a Japanese language daily sports newspaper published by Sankei Shimbun. In 2002, it had a circulation of 1,360,000. The newspaper is known by its nickname .-Relating sports teams:*Kanto - Tokyo Yakult Swallows...
  
  , Yukan Fuji, Keiba Eight, etc.
• Tokyo Head Office: Tokyo Sankei Building, 7-2, Otemachi Itchome, Chiyoda, Tokyo
  Chiyoda, Tokyo
  is one of the 23 special wards in central Tokyo, Japan. In English, it is called Chiyoda ward. As of October 2007, the ward has an estimated population of 45,543 and a population density of 3,912 people per km², making it by far the least populated of the special wards...
  
  , Japan
• Osaka Head Office: Namba Sankei Building, 1-57, Minatomachi Nichome, Naniwa-ku
  Naniwa-ku, Osaka
  is one of 24 wards of Osaka City, Japan. It has an area of 4.37 km², and a population of 51,567.- General information :Largely a residential area itself, Naniwa-ku is adjacent to and has in recent years blurred into the Namba district, which is south Osaka City's transport hub and centre of...
  
  , Osaka
  Osaka
  is a city in the Kansai region of Japan's main island of Honshu, a designated city under the Local Autonomy Law, the capital city of Osaka Prefecture and also the biggest part of Keihanshin area, which is represented by three major cities of Japan, Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe...
  
  , Japan

Nihonkogyo Shimbun Company Limited

• Name: Nihonkogyo Shimbun Company Limited (株式会社日本工業新聞社)
• Newspaper name: FujiSankei Business i (フジサンケイビジネスアイ)
• Tokyo Head Office: Tokyo Sankei Building, 7-2, Otemachi Itchome, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
• Osaka Head Office: Namba Sankei Building, 1-57, Minatomachi Nichome, Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan

Famous corporate alumni

• Monta Mino - radio and television announcer
• Yoshirō Mori
  Yoshiro Mori
  is a Japanese politician who served as the 85th and 86th Prime Minister of Japan starting at 5 April 2000 ending 26 April 2001. Described as having "the heart of a flea and the brain of a shark," he was an unpopular prime minister mainly remembered today for his many gaffes and situationally...
  
   - former prime minister
• Ryōtarō Shiba
  Ryotaro Shiba
  , born in Osaka, Japan, was a Japanese author best known for his novels about historical events in Japan and on the Northeast Asian sub-continent, as well as his historical and cultural essays pertaining to Japan and its relationship to the rest of the world....
  
   - author

External links

• MSN産経ニュース , MSN Sankei News, website in MSN Japan
  MSN
  MSN is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating system.The range of services offered by MSN has changed since its...
  
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• 産経関西 , Sankei Kansai, Sankei's Kansai edition.
• 産経新聞社 , Sankei Shimbun corporate website.