A Japan-run language school that saw its stock soar almost 12-fold last year is planning to expand into new business areas as its chief executive officer tries to keep the rally alive. RareJob Inc., a Tokyo-based online English conversation school, or eikaiwa, that uses teachers ...

Record shareholder activism is combining with rare hostile takeover bids in Japan, in a trend that's seen as good news for investors in the country's ¥675 trillion stock market. Activists such as Elliott Management Corp. have been snapping up shares in targeted firms and agitating ...

Japan Inc. is paying dividends like never before, and that's poised to lure more investors, according to Nomura Holdings Inc. Dividends for companies traded on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange reached an estimated ¥14.5 trillion ($133 billion) in August, according to data ...

Even with an ongoing trade war between the world's two biggest economies, and a weak domestic market, some Japanese investors suggest going long on next-generation technology stocks. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co.'s Next Generation Connectivity Fund has seen its total net assets surge more ...

In banks across Japan sits a pile of money that's bigger than most countries' gross domestic product — the cash reserves of the nation's companies. For some it's a testament to their strength, but to many it's a wasted opportunity. Firms listed in Japan held ...

When it comes to China, Kunimasa Miyakoshi has at least two claims to fame. Some four decades ago, when he was only 37, the businessman led the first Japanese company to get a permit to do business in the country after World War II. And ...

Noriko Mori, 47, paid about ¥700,000 ($6,300) to a cram school to help her daughter prepare for a school entrance exam in Tokyo. Her daughter was six, and the entrance exam was for an elementary school. "It was expensive," Mori said. But "she passed the ...

Miyuki Kashima was one of the first female fund managers in Japan, with a career that dates back to the mid-1980s, before the country's bubble burst. Now she's outperforming the benchmark index by buying companies that hire and promote more women. For more than three ...

With Japan's quarterly reporting period almost over, one analyst summed up the general feeling about companies' profit performance. "The results season was probably a disappointment," said Jonathan Allum, a strategist at SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Ltd. in London. It's difficult to disagree. Most firms have posted ...