In my anecdotal experience, they're usually the first to scoop big Japanese business stories. (Some kind of Nikkei -> FT pipeline?)

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> It’s been owned by the Japanese company Nikkei, Inc. — an employee-owned company that publishes The Nikkei newspaper — since 2015.

Okay that makes sense now, haha.

Nikkei is employee-owned?! I need to look into this more!

> Nikkei is employee-owned?! I need to look into this more!

It's a Kabushiki gaisha (株式会社).

They aren't "employee-owned" in the progressive western sense (that's actually a "Cooperative") - it's just a joint stock company similar to McKinsey where employees can partake in limited profit sharing.

I'd love to adopt that myself, wonder if there's any good reading in English beyond the Wikipedia article...

And much softer, more centrist politics. WSJ is every bit a Murdoch paper

The op-ed pages were pretty conservative even pre-Murdoch. The FT is a lot like the WSJ but, as someone else commented, more global in perspective and with a more centrist editorial angle. (Probably more in line with The Economist but maybe even more so.)

Writing quality and critical thinking are double that of WSJ though.