Nikkei Asia wins two SABEW Best in Business Awards for 2025

Reports on US-China trade war and Asian immigration take top honors
SABEW lauded Nikkei Asia's "solid reporting," "fascinating color" and "thoughtful deep dives."
TOKYO -- Nikkei Asia has won two 2025 Best in Business Awards from the U.S.

Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW), marking the fifth consecutive year it has received top honors in the prestigious journalism competition.

SABEW, which describes itself as the world's largest organization of business and financial journalists, said on Wednesday that this year's contest attracted 988 entries submitted by 150 news organizations.

Nikkei Asia won in the economics category for the second straight year for a series of reports on how Chinese businesses have been finding ways around U.S.

trade barriers.

The honored stories were: China's formidable logistics sector challenges Trump tariff enforcers by Stella Yifan Xie and Pak Yiu, China's state-backed labs provide a lifeline for U.S.-blacklisted chip suppliers by Cheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li, and China revs up global sales push despite Trump's trade war by Wataru Suzuki.

"Nikkei Asia stood out in this category with solid reporting and fascinating color," the judges said.

"The reporting team -- working from posts in New York, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Yiwu, China -- unpacked complex patterns of tariff evasion that will undermine the administration's goal of closing the U.S.

trade deficit with China."
Nikkei Asia also received an honorable mention in the real estate category for Andrew Sharp's "well-researched and brilliantly presented and illustrated" report, Shibuya's grand makeover tests Japan's urban future .

The SABEW awards, launched in 1995, are divided into three categories -- for small, medium-sized, and large news organizations.

Nikkei Asia was honored in the midsize division -- between 51 and 150 staff -- for its economics and real estate reporting.

It won in the combined small and medium division for international reporting.

Akito Tanaka, editor-in-chief of Nikkei Asia, said: "The awards show the strong positioning of Nikkei Asia.

We always look for an Asian perspective, providing unique journalism for our readers."
The Financial Times, which is also part of the Nikkei group, won the large news organization award for explanatory reporting for Alison Killing's visual investigation on how Saudi Arabia's Neom dream unraveled .

It also received honorable mentions for technology reporting and video.