Nihon Keizai Shimbun

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The Nihon Keizai Shimbun
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Blanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)

Owner	Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
Publisher	Ryoki Sugita
Founded	December 2, 1876
Language	Japanese
Price	Morning edition: 140 Yen/copy Afternoon edition: 50 Yen/copy Subscription: 4,383 Yen/month (Morining and afternoon edition)
Headquarters	Tokyo
Circulation	Morning edition: 3,034,481 Afternoon edition: 1,618,603 (ABC Japan, average for July-December 2005)

Website: www.nikkei.co.jp

Nikkei headquarters in Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Nikkei offices in Osaka

Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞, Nihon Keizai Shimbun^? lit. Japan Economic Times), or Nikkei (日経, Nikkei^?), 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 which calculates the Nikkei 225
Nikkei Kinyu Shimbun (Nikkei Financial Daily, finance newspaper)
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.