Overseas investors are finally returning to Japanese stocks.
For that renewed interest, credit should go to Japan’s relative success in coping with the pandemic, as well as two men who are changing the way the world’s third largest stock exchange is perceived.
Newly elected Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, 71, and 90-year-old Warren Buffett, who in August placed a contrarian $6 billion bet on Japan’s trading houses, are shaking foreign investors out of their reverie when it comes to the country.