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ACQUISITIONS

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 8, 2020
Itochu planning ¥600 billion bid for Japan’s FamilyMart chain
Trading companies have been increasing their stakes in the country's biggest convenience store operators as a way to diversify business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 15, 2020
Japan’s 'king of deals' preparing to pounce once valuations dip in pandemic aftermath
Minebea Mitsumi Inc. Chief Executive Officer Yoshihisa Kainuma is preparing to resume acquisitions once the coronavirus pandemic is done gutting corporate finances and valuations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 11, 2020
Just Eat Takeaway to buy Grubhub for $7.3 billion to enter U.S.
For Uber, losing the deal is a blow to its plan to turn a profit from food delivery as the pandemic decimates its main business of ride hailing.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 27, 2020
Amazon in talks to buy autonomous vehicle startup Zoox
Paying drivers to deliver packages is still one of the e-commerce giant's biggest operational costs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 19, 2020
Sony plans to take finance arm private for about $3.7 billion
The electronics giant will offer u00a52,600 a share for part of Sony Financial Holdings Inc. that it doesn't already own, it said in a statement Tuesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 28, 2020
Embraer takes Boeing to arbitration over failed deal as Brazil eyes China tie-up
The U.S. plane maker abruptly canceled a u00a5451 billion deal this weekend that had been years in the making.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 6, 2020
Some WeWork staff planned their lives around a stock deal that just collapsed
Teddy Kramer worked at WeWork from 2013 to 2015. When he left the company, he had been a director of new market development, helping the coworking startup open new offices in different regions. He’d put in the time and been granted shares in the company. At first, he thought he might be able to sell...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 6, 2020
Toshiba Machine girds for tough battle with investor Yoshiaki Murakami
Toshiba Machine Co. is bracing for "a very tough battle" with controversial activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami on March 27, when shareholders will meet to decide the outcome of one of the nation's highest-profile takeover battles in recent years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2020
Japan's Seven & I drops plan to buy U.S. convenience store chain
Seven & I Holdings Co. has dropped its plan to acquire U.S. convenience store chain Speedway LLC, informed sources said.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 26, 2020
Major Japanese ad agency Hakuhodo DY to take over Taiwan's Growww Media
Japanese advertising and marketing giant Hakuhodo DY Holdings Inc. plans to purchase major Taiwanese ad agency Growww Media Co. in a bid to bolster its business in the territory.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2020
Intuit buys Credit Karma for $7.1 billion in cash and stock
Intuit Inc., the software giant behind TurboTax, is buying personal finance website Credit Karma Inc. for about $7.1 billion in cash and stock.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2020
Morgan Stanley charts ambitious course with $13 billion E-Trade deal
Morgan Stanley said Thursday it will buy discount brokerage E-Trade Financial Corp. in a stock deal worth about $13 billion, the biggest acquisition by a Wall Street bank since the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 21, 2020
L Brands to sell majority stake in Victoria's Secret; CEO to step down
L Brands Inc. said Thursday it will sell a controlling stake in its Victoria's Secret unit to investment firm Sycamore Partners, valuing the lingerie brand at $1.1 billion (¥123 billion), as it focuses on its core Bath & Body Works brand.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 20, 2020
7-Eleven owner in talks for Marathon's Speedway gas stations, sources say
Seven & I Holdings Co., which controls convenience store operator 7-Eleven, is in exclusive talks to acquire Marathon Petroleum Corp.'s Speedway gas stations for about $22 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 6, 2020
Japan's problem? Too much competition
If you thought Japan was a prime example of socialism that works, think again.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2020
Yoshiaki Murakami fund launches ¥25.9 billion hostile bid for Toshiba Machine
City Index Eleventh Co. said it will offer u00a53,456 per Toshiba Machine share to buy up to 43.82 percent of the molding machine company.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 15, 2020
Fujifilm vies with buyout firms in $3 billion Curium sale
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. is entering the race for Curium Pharma, challenging buyout firms bidding for the French maker of medical imaging supplies in a deal that could fetch at least $3 billion (¥329.8 billion), people familiar with the matter said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 7, 2020
Japanese firms set to outspend Chinese rivals in Asia amid favorable landscape
Japanese firms outspent their Chinese rivals for the second year in a row to be the biggest deal-making force in Asia in 2019, aided by favorable financing and reduced competition in the face of U.S.-China tensions.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 20, 2019
Toshiba digs in heels after Hoya's unsolicited bid for technology unit
Just days after Hoya Corp. made a hostile takeover bid for one of Toshiba Corp.'s publicly traded units — an extremely rare move in Japan — the industrial giant is responding with equally unusual bluntness.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 19, 2019
Hitachi to sell chemical unit and diagnosis imaging equipment business
Machinery giant Hitachi Ltd. said Wednesday that it will sell its subsidiary Hitachi Chemical Co. to Showa Denko K.K. and its diagnosis imaging equipment business to Fujifilm Holdings Corp. for a total of about ¥700 billion.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
Don’t worry about global population collapse
Most projections show the world will hit peak humanity in the 21st century as people choose to have smaller families and women gain power over their own reproduction.
Japan pharma startup developing world-first drug to grow new teeth
A new tooth is seen in a ferret's mouth after it was administered a drug to stimulate the growth of tooth buds.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”
Can AI-generated inventions be patented? A Tokyo court says no.
The Tokyo court's ruling comes amid ongoing debates on how to regulate generative AI and is part of a transnational class action lawsuit.
Massimo Bottura: 'The Japanese let ingredients express themselves'
Italian chef and restaurateur Massimo Bottura is increasingly focusing on passing on his knowledge to chefs such as Antonio Iacoviello.
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.

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