For Min Jeong Lee's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
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 ...
It's been a bad year for the Japanese stock market. Without record purchases by the Bank of Japan, it could have been even worse. The central bank spent ¥833 billion ($7.8 billion) on exchange-traded funds tracking the country's shares last month, the biggest amount logged ...
Masaki Hojo, who built Daifuku Co. into the world's largest maker of machines for handling chip materials, is once again challenging market expectations even as he prepares to make his exit from the company. Daifuku is considering raising its earnings guidance for the medium term, ...
Japan's banner year for buyouts is just the start of a bigger boom in the market, says the fund responsible for more than four-fifths of private equity deals in the country by value in 2017. The year won't be a one-off, says Yuji Sugimoto, the ...
