Yesterday Pearson agreed to sell the Financial Times to Nikkei for nearly $1.3bn. For this Japanese buyer, many people feel some surprise. Nikkei group core media "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" after the completion of the acquisition published an article said: the world's largest economic media was born! However, some people are concerned that the Japanese media are relatively introverted compared with the Global perspective of the British and American media. Will the FINANCIAL Times become "Japanese style" if it is acquired by a Japanese media?

　　Founded in 1888, the Financial Times is an international newspaper owned by Pearson With a history of 127 years.

　Speaking of the ft's influence, Gerhard Schroeder, the former German chancellor, once said he found it the only European newspaper the US President read at breakfast.

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