, abbreviated FCG, is a keiretsu

Keiretsu

A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings. It is a type of business group. The keiretsu has maintained dominance over the Japanese economy for the greater half of the twentieth century....

 in Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. This media conglomerate

Media conglomerate

A media conglomerate, media group or media institution is a company that owns large numbers of companies in various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and the Internet...

 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.

In the 1960s, the company founded the Hakone Open-Air Museum

Hakone Open-Air Museum

Hakone Open-Air Museum is a museum in Hakone in Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.-External links:*...

 in Hakone, Kanagawa

Hakone, Kanagawa

is a town in Ashigarashimo District in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the town had an estimated population of 13,339 and a density of 144 persons per km². The total area was 92.82 km².-Geography:...

. The museum houses over 1,000 sculpture

Sculpture

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

s and features art by Henry Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art....

, Constantin Brâncuşi

Constantin Brancusi

Constantin Brâncuşi was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...

, Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE was an English sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism, and with such contemporaries as Ivon Hitchens, Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo she helped to develop modern art in Britain.-Life and work:Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth was born on 10 January 1903 in Wakefield,...

, Rokuzan Ogiwara

Rokuzan Ogiwara

, was a sculptor active in Meiji period Japan. His real name was . He is regarded as one of the pioneers of modern western-style bronze sculpture in Japan.-Early life:...

, and Kōtarō Takamura

Kotaro Takamura

was a Japanese poet and sculptor.-Biography:Kōtarō was the son of Takamura Kōun, a renowned Japanese sculptor.He graduated from the Tokyo School of Fine Arts in 1902, where he studied sculpture...

.

In October 1989, Fujisankei Communications paid Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 $2 million to help the company with public relations

Public relations

Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....

. 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

The Adventures of Milo and Otis

The Adventures of Milo and Otis is a live action Japanese film about an orange tabby cat named Milo and a fawn pug named Otis.The original Japanese version was released on June 27, 1986, and the reworked English language version was released on August 25, 1989.Initially filmed as Koneko Monogatari...

, which were the two highest-grossing "domestically made" movies in Japan.

Fujisankei Communications International

Fujisankei Communications International

Fujisankei Communications International, Inc. is the American arm of the Fujisankei Communications Group , an important Japanese media conglomerate of television and radio channels, magazine, newspaper, record and video game companies. The Fujisankei Communications Group owns about 100 companies,...

 is a subsidiary

Subsidiary

A subsidiary company, subsidiary, or daughter company is a company that is completely or partly owned and wholly controlled by another company that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a...

 of Fujisankei Communications Group.

Fuji TV Group

• Fuji Television Network, Inc.
  Fuji Television
  is a Japanese television station based in Daiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as or CX, based on the station's callsign "JOCX-DTV". It is the flagship station of the Fuji News Network and the ....
  
   (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.
  Fujisankei Communications International
  Fujisankei Communications International, Inc. is the American arm of the Fujisankei Communications Group , an important Japanese media conglomerate of television and radio channels, magazine, newspaper, record and video game companies. The Fujisankei Communications Group owns about 100 companies,...
  
   (Publishing, Information, Other)

Nippon Hoso Group

• Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc.
  Nippon Broadcasting System
  , or JOLF, is a Japanese radio station in Tokyo. Together with Nippon Cultural Broadcasting it is a flagship station of the National Radio Network...
  
   (Broadcasting)
• Nippon Broadcasting Projects, Inc. (Publishing, Information, Other)
• Fujisankei Agency (Publishing, Information, Other)

Sankei Shimbun Group

• The Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd. - Sankei Shimbun
  Sankei Shimbun
  is a daily newspaper in Japan published by the . It has the sixth highest circulation for a newspaper in Japan, and is considered as one of the five "national" newspapers...
  
   and Sankei Sports
  Sankei Sports
  is a Japanese language daily sports newspaper published by Sankei Shimbun. In 2002, it had a circulation of 1,360,000. The newspaper is known by its nickname .-Relating sports teams:*Kanto - Tokyo Yakult Swallows...
  
  
• Nihonkogyo Shimbun Company Limited - Fujisankei Business i
• Sankei Shimbun Kaihatsu, Inc. (Tokyo)
• Sankei Shimbun Kaihatsu, Inc. (Osaka)
• Sankei Advertising, Inc.
• Osaka Broadcasting Corporation
  Osaka Broadcasting Corporation
  is an AM radio station of National Radio Network in Osaka, Japan, and it is known as "Radio Osaka ". It is also a company of Sankei Shimbun Group in Fujisankei Communications Group...
  
  

Living Shimbun Group

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

Bunka Hoso Group

• Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Inc.
  Nippon Cultural Broadcasting
  is a Japanese radio station in Tokyo which broadcasts to the Kanto area. It is one of the two flagship radio stations of National Radio Network and also has a relationship with JOLF and Fuji Television....
  
  
• 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