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{{short description|Japanese newspaper}}
{{more citations needed|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Nihon Keizai Shimbun
| logo = Nikkei_logo_ja.svg
| logo_size = 250px
| image = First-Issue-Chugai-Bukka-Shimpo-Frontpage-Nikkei-1876.png
| caption = First issue 'Chugai Bukka Shimpo', 1876.
| type = Daily [[newspaper]]
| format = Blanket (54.6 cm x 40.65 cm)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nikkei.co.jp/print/|title=日本経済新聞の印刷サービス - 新聞サイズ・タブロイド判、小部数から承ります。|website=www.nikkei.co.jp|accessdate=Dec 4, 2022|archive-date=December 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226213618/https://www.nikkei.co.jp/print/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| foundation = {{start date and age|1876|12|2|df=yes}} (as ''The Nihon Keizai Shimbun'')
| owner = [[Nikkei, Inc.]]
| publisher = Tsuneo Kita
| language = [[Japanese language|Japanese]] and [[English language|English]]
| circulation = 1,731,000Morning<br />790,7000
Electronic version<ref>ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations) Japan, average for In March 2022</ref>
| political = [[Centre-right politics|Centre-right]]<ref name="neoliberal"/>{{efn|In Japan, the Nikkei is often seen as being right-leaning and favourable to the right-wing [[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|LDP]] in the Yomiuri and Sankei newspapers, left-liberal and critical of the LDP in the Asahi and Mainichi newspapers, and [[Centrism|neutral/centrist]] in contrast to them in the Nikkei.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-15 |title=池上彰が解説｢今さら聞けない新聞の読み方｣ |url=https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/312181 |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=東洋経済オンライン |language=ja |archive-date=2023-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403074931/https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/312181 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=あのTVや新聞はどっち？政治とメディアの右と左 {{!}} テンミニッツTV |url=https://10mtv.jp/pc/column/article.php?column_article_id=996 |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=10mtv.jp |language=ja |archive-date=2023-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404065850/https://10mtv.jp/pc/column/article.php?column_article_id=996 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=新聞社・テレビ局の関係図は？考え方の傾向や違いも解説！ |url=https://kigyolog.com/article.php?id=1629 |access-date=2023-04-04 |website=起業ログ |language=ja |archive-date=2023-04-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404064350/https://kigyolog.com/article.php?id=1629 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}<br />[[Neoliberalism]]<ref name="neoliberal">{{cite book |editor=Myles Carroll |title=The Making of Modern Japan: Power, Crisis, and the Promise of Transformation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bNFKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA213 |quote=... Finally, within the mass media, the centre- right Nihon Keizai Shimbun broadly speaks on behalf of a neoliberal vision for Japan and would be an effective mouthpiece for a neoliberal coalition, given its reputation ... |date=2021 |page=213 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789004466531 |access-date=2023-04-23 |archive-date=2023-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423181338/https://books.google.com/books?id=bNFKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA213 |url-status=live }}</ref><br />[[Conservative liberalism]]<br />[[Conservatism]]<ref name="cons">{{cite book |editor=Debra L. Merskin |title=The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AbCcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1963 |quote=... Sankei, Yomiuri, and The Nikkei are considered conservative, while Mainichi and Asahi are moderate and liberal, respectively. ... |date=2019 |publisher=[[SAGE Publications]] |isbn=9781483375540 |access-date=2023-04-23 |archive-date=2023-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230423132622/https://books.google.com/books?id=AbCcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT1963 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| headquarters = [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.nikkei.com/}}
}}
[[Image:Otemachi_Conference_Center.jpg|thumb|200px|Nikkei headquarters on the left in [[Ōtemachi]], [[Chiyoda, Tokyo]]]]

'''''The Nikkei''''', also known as {{nihongo|'''''The Nihon Keizai Shimbun'''''|日本経済新聞|extra={{lit}} "Japan Economics Newspaper"}}, is the flagship publication of [[Nikkei, Inc.]] (based in Tokyo) and the world's largest financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding 1.73 million copies. The [[Nikkei 225]], a stock market index for the [[Tokyo Stock Exchange]], has been calculated by the newspaper since 1950.<ref>{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Landers |date=July 23, 2015 |title=5 Things to Know About Nikkei |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/07/23/5-things-to-know-about-nikkei-after-financial-times-deal/ |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |department=5 Things (blog) |access-date=July 25, 2015 |archive-date=September 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919171843/https://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/07/23/5-things-to-know-about-nikkei-after-financial-times-deal/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

It is one of the four national [[newspapers in Japan]]; the other three are ''[[The Asahi Shimbun]]'', the ''[[Yomiuri Shimbun]]'' and the ''[[Mainichi Shimbun]]''.

==History==
The roots of the Nikkei started with an in-house newspaper department of [[Mitsui & Co.|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 Shōgyō Shimpo'' in 1889. It was merged with ''Nikkan Kōgyō'' and ''Keizai Jiji'' and renamed ''Nihon Sangyō Keizai Shimbun'' in 1942. The paper changed its name to the ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' in 1946.<ref>{{cite news |title=History: COMPANY |url=http://www.nikkei.co.jp/nikkeiinfo/en/corporate/history/ |website=nikkei.co.jp |access-date=30 July 2015 |archive-date=28 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150728000543/http://www.nikkei.co.jp/nikkeiinfo/en/corporate/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Criticism ==
According to Shusuke Murai and Reiji Yoshida from ''[[The Japan Times]]'', critics say the Nikkei is "depending too much on leaks — apparently provided by corporate insiders — and the paper is often seen as reluctant to bluntly criticize Japanese firms."<ref>{{cite web |date=24 July 2015 |title=Nikkei Inc. Announces it will buy venerable Financial Times in ¥160 billion deal |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/24/business/corporate-business/nikkei-buys-financial-times-1-3-billion-deal/ |access-date=11 July 2022 |archive-date=7 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807003544/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/07/24/business/corporate-business/nikkei-buys-financial-times-1-3-billion-deal/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reporter Hiroko Tabuchi said the Nikkei's purchase of the FT "Worrying", further stating that "[The] Nikkei is basically a PR machine for Japanese biz; it initially ignored the 2011 Olympus accounting scandal (which FT broke). Nikkei has also hardly covered the Takata airbag defect; almost no investigative work on that issue whatsoever. Nikkei is Japan Inc."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/newsonomics-eight-questions-and-answers-about-nikkeis-surprise-purchase-of-the-ft/|title=Newsonomics: Eight questions (and answers) about Nikkei's surprise purchase of the FT|accessdate=Dec 4, 2022|archive-date=December 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203021530/https://www.niemanlab.org/2015/07/newsonomics-eight-questions-and-answers-about-nikkeis-surprise-purchase-of-the-ft/|url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:Shinkansen_and_Himeji_Station_M9_56.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Newspapers including ''Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' are displayed at station shops.]]

== Hong Kong ==
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On August 10, 2020, three [[Hong Kong Police Force]] officers visited the Hong Kong branch of ''The Nikkei'' with a court order. The reason being investigations over an advert placed in ''The Nikkei'' a year prior calling for international support for [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests|pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-08-28|title=Hong Kong police sift the past to pursue new security law crimes|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20200828-hong-kong-police-sift-the-past-to-pursue-new-security-law-crimes|access-date=2021-09-04|website=France 24|language=en|archive-date=2021-09-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922185947/https://www.france24.com/en/20200828-hong-kong-police-sift-the-past-to-pursue-new-security-law-crimes|url-status=live}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[List of newspapers in Japan]]
* [[Media of Japan]]
* [[TX Network]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Further reading==
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* {{cite book | first = William | last = De Lange | title = A History of Japanese Journalism: State of Affairs and Affairs of State | publisher = Toyo Press | year=2023 | isbn = 978-94-92722-393 }}

==External links==
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* {{Official website|https://www.nikkei.com/}} {{in lang|ja}}
* {{Official website|http://asia.nikkei.com/|''Nikkei Asian Review'' official website}} {{in lang|en}}

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