Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara announced Friday he will set up an office in Silicon Valley in the United States to offer information about Tokyo’s small and midsize enterprises to investors and venture capitals.
The metropolitan government is hoping such information will help elicit investor interest there for a planned junk bond market Ishihara pledged to create during his election campaign as a way to activate the ailing economy.
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