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 Right-wing to far-right
Language	Japanese
Headquarters	Tokyo Osaka
Circulation	Morning edition: 844,000 Evening edition: 212,000 (ABC Japan, In August 2024)
Website	www.sankei.com

Conservatism in Japan
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Ideologies Capitalist Fiscal State Corporate Liberal Economic Nationalist Minzoku Populist Shōwa Statism Ultra Neo Paternalistic Religious State Shinto Social Ultra
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 Militarism Monarchism Nativism Nihonjinron Patriotism Shinto Social order Sovereignty Tradition Wa Yamato-damashii
History 1955 System Abenomics Anti-Comintern Pact CIA activities Empire of Japan Emperor system Hakkō ichiu Peace Preservation Law Tenkō Red Purge Red Scare Satsuma Rebellion State Secrecy Law U.S.-Japan Security Treaty
Intellectuals Aida Etō Fukuda Hasuda Hayashi Hirata Hyakuta Inazō Kanokogi Koizumi Kobayashi Kosaka Kuga Kakuzō Motoori Masaki Mayuzumi Minobe Mizushima Mishima Miyake Nishibe Nishio Ōen Oh Okazaki Ōkawa Oshikawa Sakurai Shiono Shiga Sono Sōseki Sugiyama Suzuki Takeyama Tadayuki Tsunetomo Watsuji Watanabe Yamazaki Yoshikawa Yasuoka 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) An Investigation of Global Policy (1943) 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 Inada Ishiba (Shigeru) Ishiba (Jirō) Ishihara Itō Kamiya Kaneko Katsura Kawamura Kiichirō Kishi Kishida Koike Koizumi (Junichiro) Koizumi (Shinjirō) Konoe Mori Makino Nakagawa Nakasone Ōhira Ōkubo Saigō Saionji Suga Sugita Takaichi Tamaki Tojo (Hideki) Tojo (Yuko) 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 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 Your Party
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
Media Bungei Shunjū Shokun! Fujisankei Communications Group Fuji Television Sankei Shimbun Seiron Hanada WiLL The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings Yomiuri Shimbun Chūō Kōron Japanese Culture Channel Sakura Shūkan Shinchō
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-People's Republic of China Nobility Daimyo Kazoku Kuge Samurai Kokugaku Politics in Japan Pro-Americanism (post-war) Pro-ROC / Pro-Taiwan (post-war) Racism in Japan Chinese Korean Kurdish Russian Satō–Kishi–Abe family Uyoku dantai Yamato nadeshiko Yasukuni Shrine 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 Japanese electoral reform Lost Decades 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
Main ideology Conservatism Japanese nationalism Reactionary
Related ideology Anti-communism Corporate statism Economic conservatism Economic interventionism Economic liberalism Elitism Ethnic nationalism Liberal conservatism Liberalism Classical liberalism Conservative liberalism Historical revisionism Monarchism Neoconservatism Neoliberalism National conservatism Paternalistic conservatism Progressive conservatism Right-wing populism Social conservatism Traditionalist conservatism Ultranationalism
Related organizations Association of Shinto Shrines Central Intelligence Agency Dentsu Japan Business Federation Japan Conference Japan lobby Japan Medical Association Junior Chamber International Japan Local support groups Pasona Unification Church
Media Sankei Shimbun (Fujisankei Communications Group)
Related topics Factions in the Liberal Democratic Party Politics in Japan
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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, right-wing to far-right political stance. It has previously published materials downplaying or denying Japanese war crimes.