Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (abbreviation: FAZ) is a leading national folio daily newspaper in Germany, founded on November 1, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main. It is one of the most widely circulated newspapers in Germany, and is influential in the German-speaking community, with its main owner being the FAZIT Foundation. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is also the most internationally recognized of Germany's serious newspapers, and its views are skewed towards conservatism. On January 14, 2014, the Chinese Ambassador to Germany, Shi Mingde, published an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled "Japan's Serious Damage to Peace," in which he strongly condemned Japanese Prime Minister Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a wrongful act that blatantly challenged the post-war international order.