Word: sankei
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again. Last week Japan's largest communications ( concern, Fujisankei, paid $150 million to buy a 25% stake in Britain's hottest record company, Virgin Music Group. Fujisankei's holding is the biggest Japanese share in any British company. The deal will give Fujisankei, which owns the daily newspaper Sankei Shimbun and a music and video company called Pony Canyon, entree to the West. Says joint chairman Hiroaki Shikanai: "We want to dispatch our thoughts and our culture to the world...
...Bernhard Goetz raised such basic and emotional questions about a man's right to defend himself, about street crime and racism, that the jury decision on this inherently inconsequential shooting prompted headlines around the world. SUBWAY VIGILANTE CLEARED, said the London Times. SCARY SUBWAY, SELF-DEFENSE, said Tokyo's Sankei Shimbun. "Despite the virtuous denials of the jury," declared Paris' Le Monde, "no one believed, of course, that the verdict would have been the same if the accused had been black and the 'victims' white...
...Japanese newspaper field includes four other giants: Asahi Shimbun (circ. 12.1 million), which is Yomiuri's longtime rival; Mainichi (circ. 6.9 million); Sankei (circ. 3.1 million); and the business-oriented Nihon Keizai, or "Nikkei" (circ. 3 million). Though the 119 million Japanese are known as a TV-obsessed society, they buy 68 million copies of 125 daily newspapers, making them perhaps the world's most devoted newspaper readers...