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Nikkei Asia

Japanese business/financial press, center-right leaning

Nikkei Asia is the English-language international arm of Nikkei, Inc., Japan's dominant business media group, which also owns the Financial Times. Its coverage of the Trump administration centers on trade and tariff policy, reporting substantively on the economic costs to Asian businesses without a consistent partisan slant, and some assessments describe it as moderately right-of-center on story selection.

Owned byNikkei, Inc. (Nihon Keizai Shimbun), Japan's largest financial news group; Nikkei is employee-owned (Japanese law bars newspaper companies from being publicly traded). Nikkei, Inc. also owns the Financial Times, acquired from Pearson in 2015.

LeaningJapanese business/financial press, center-right leaning

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3.3average bias score across 12 stories
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun

Stories

4 U.S. Trade Court Hears Challenge to Trump's 10% and 12.5% Forced-Labor Tariffs on 60 Economies
5 China's Revised National Defense Mobilization Law Takes Effect Oct. 1, Its First Overhaul Since 2010
3 Bank of Japan Raises Its Policy Rate to 1.25% in a 7-2 Vote; Yen Falls Past 157 to the Dollar
2 S&P 500 Rises 0.17% to 7,650.50 as About $7 Trillion in U.S. Options Expired in Second-Largest Triple Witching
3 Myanmar Deports American Adam Castillo After U.S. Officials Meet Junta Representatives in Naypyidaw
4 SB Energy IPO Filing Discloses $3 Billion Nvidia Investment, $5.5 Billion in OpenAI Warrants and a $105 Billion Nvidia Lease Backstop
3 Yen Rises More Than 1% Against the Dollar, Touching 156.15, as BOJ Signals a Possible Rate Hike on Sept. 18
4 China's Rare-Earth Magnet Exports to Japan Fell to 111 Tonnes in July, Customs Data Show, While Shipments to the U.S. and South Korea Rose
2 Trump Signs Proclamation Setting 15% Tariff and Minimum Import Prices on Polysilicon and Solar Products, Effective Dec. 4
4 Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan: At Least 34 Dead, Mall Explosion, Chip Plants Halted
3 China Promotes Two Officers to General as Anti-Corruption Purge Leaves Top Military Body Depleted
2 Chip Stocks Fall After Report That OpenAI May Postpone Its IPO to 2027