Sankei Sports
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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 .
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
daily sports newspaper
Newspaper
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published by 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...
. In 2002, it had a circulation of 1,360,000. The newspaper is known by its nickname .
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