Japan Today, a popular news website bought by a Fuji Media Holdings group company last month, will stick to its motto of presenting news "through the perspectives of foreigners" despite the change in ownership, the media conglomerate says.

Fuji TV-Lab, a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings, Inc., announced April 7 that it had acquired GPlus Media Co., which runs several English-language websites, including Japan Today and classifieds ads site GaijinPot.

GPM, founded in 2001 by two expat entrepreneurs, is now headed by Tadashi Tokizawa, president and CEO of Fuji TV-Lab, a website production company under the Fuji Media group. GPM's founders will stay on as directors, an FMH spokeswoman said in an email to The Japan Times.