Nihon Keizai Shimbun

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The Nikkei (formally known as The Nihon Keizai Shimbun)
Type Daily newspaper
Format Blanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)
Publisher Tsuneo Kita
Founded December 2, 1876
Language Japanese
Headquarters Tokyo
Circulation Morning edition: 3,034,481
Afternoon edition: 1,618,603 (ABC Japan, average for July-December 2005)
Official website www.nikkei.co.jp
Nikkei headquarters in Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Nikkei offices in Osaka

Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞?, lit. Japan Economic Times), or Nikkei (日経?), is one of the largest media corporations in Japan. Nikkei specializes in publishing financial, business and industry news. Its main news publications include:

  • Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a leading economic newspaper.
  • Nikkei Veritas, a weekly financial newspaper that replaced Nikkei Kinyu Shimbun (Nikkei Financial Daily) in March 2008.
  • Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun (Nikkei Business Daily, industry newspaper)
  • Nikkei Ryutsu Shimbun (Nikkei MJ, Nikkei Marketing Journal, commerce newspaper)
  • Nikkei Weekly, an English 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.

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.

The company was founded in 1876 when it started publication of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun is Nikkei's flagship publication and the world's largest financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding 3 million.

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