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Founder
  
Nobutaka Shikanai

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Fujisankei Communications Group (フジサンケイグループ, Fuji Sankei Gurūpu), abbreviated FCG, is a keiretsu in Japan. This media conglomerate was founded by Nobutaka Shikanai. In 1991, it was the fourth-largest media company in the world and the largest one in Japan. In the same year, the company's yearly revenue was $5 billion. After a 2008 reorganization, most of the companies that are considered as part of the Fujisankei Group are owned by Fuji Media Holdings.

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In the 1960s, the company founded the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Hakone, Kanagawa. The museum houses over 1,000 sculptures and features art by Henry Moore, Constantin Brâncuși, Barbara Hepworth, Rokuzan Ogiwara, and Kōtarō Takamura.

In October 1989, Fujisankei Communications paid Ronald Reagan $2 million to help the company with public relations. Reagan toured Japan for nine days and made two speeches.

In 1991, Fujisankei Communications spent $50 million to found the Fujisankei California Entertainment, a film company. The film company was headed by Masaru Kakutani, who produced Antarctica and The Adventures of Milo and Otis, which were the two highest-grossing "domestically made" movies in Japan.

Fujisankei Communications International is a subsidiary of Fujisankei Communications Group.

Major companies

  • (): Group in Fuji Media Holdings, Inc.

    • Fuji TV Group

  • Fuji Television Network, Inc. (Broadcasting)
  • Satellite Service (Broadcasting)
  • BS Fuji (Fuji Satellite Broadcasting Inc.)
  • FujiLand, Inc.
  • Kyodo Television, Ltd. (Producing)
  • Fuji Creative Corporation (Producing)
  • Fujiart, Inc. (Producing)
  • Happo Television, Inc. (Producing)
  • Fuji Lighting and Technology, Inc. (Producing)
  • Dinos, Inc. (Life Information)
  • Fuji TV Flower Center (Life Information)
  • Fujipacific Music, Inc. (Film Music)
  • Fusosha Publishing, Inc. (Publishing, Information, Other)
  • Fujimic, Inc. (Publishing, Information, Other)
  • Fujisankei Communications International, Inc. (Publishing, Information, Other)

    • Pony Canyon Group

  • Pony Canyon, Inc. (Film Music)

    • Nippon Hoso Group

  • Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. (Broadcasting)
  • Nippon Broadcasting Projects, Inc. (Publishing, Information, Other)
  • Fujisankei Agency (Publishing, Information, Other)

    • Sankei Shimbun Group

  • The Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. - Sankei Shimbun and Sankei Sports
  • Nihonkogyo Shimbun Company Limited - Fujisankei Business i
  • Sankei Shimbun Kaihatsu, Inc. (Tokyo)
  • Sankei Shimbun Kaihatsu, Inc. (Osaka)
  • Sankei Advertising, Inc.
  • Osaka Broadcasting Corporation

    • Living Shimbun Group

  • Sankei Living Shimbun Inc. (Life Information)
  • LIVING PRO-SEED, INC. (Life Information)

    • Sankei Building Group

  • Sankei Building Co., Ltd.

    • Bunka Hoso Group

  • Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc.
  • Japan Central Music Limited
  • QR Center Inc.

    • Public-interest corporation Group

  • The Hakone Open-air Museum
  • The Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-air Museum
  • The Ueno Royal Museum

    • References

    Fujisankei Communications Group Wikipedia
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