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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

BUSINESS / Companies
May 20, 2016
Cookpad's maverick founder stirs recipe for unrest
A spat is rocking one of Japan's most popular Internet companies after the founder moved to kick out the board, enraging staff and sending shares tumbling.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2016
Mizuho to sideline old boys' network in next CEO selection vote
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is doing away with the kind of opaque leadership selection process that's common in the nation, vowing to ensure its next chief executive is chosen openly and fairly.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2015
Hedge fund founder says Abe's activist army 'doing it wrong'
Jamie Rosenwald, who's been buying Japanese shares since 1972, says short-sighted activists are failing to make the most of one of the biggest opportunities for investors in decades.
BUSINESS
Nov 19, 2015
Move to improve Japanese corporate governance devolves into compliance game
One day, Japan's biggest overhaul of rules for companies in decades will make them more efficient. Right now it's making things worse.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2015
Reappearance of old faces on Toshiba board questions commitment to reform
Scandal-hit Toshiba Corp. appointed new board members at an extraordinary shareholders meeting, vowing to improve its corporate culture and governance.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 31, 2015
Japan's Enron reckoning
The Toshiba scandal should be an impetus for the Abe government to do even more to improve corporate governance.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 16, 2015
Unfortunately, corporate Japan thinks it's 1985
Japan's biggest companies are greeting reforms aimed at improving corporate governance with a halfhearted shrug.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2015
Kunio Ito, the man behind Japan's corporate governance blueprint, is feeling pleased
The architect of a revolution at domestic companies is a happy man.
JAPAN
May 31, 2015
Japan '30 years behind' in corporate governance, top U.S. money manager says
David Herro, a money manager who oversees $35 billion (¥4.35 trillion) worth of investments and learned about Japanese corporate governance the hard way, says for all Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts, the nation remains 30 years behind in this area.
EDITORIALS
May 14, 2015
Qualified outside directors needed
Companies may be required to bring in more outside directors, but their mere presence won't be enough — they must have the power to affect decisions.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 27, 2015
New rules are pushing Japanese corporations to tap more outside directors
More Japanese firms are appointing outside directors to strengthen their corporate governance, pushed by a revised law and new rules that are set to come into effect in the coming months.
EDITORIALS
Mar 16, 2015
A corporate governance cure-all?
New Tokyo Stock Exchange rules requiring all companies listed on its First and Second sections to have at least two independent outside directors on their board is in line with the Abe administration's push to beef up corporate governance as a way of luring more foreign investors.
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2014
Governance fix needed at GPIF before asset change, Shiozaki says
As the world's biggest pension manager moves closer to putting more money in risky assets, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's deputy policy chief says the fund needs to change its governance first.
EDITORIALS
Jul 11, 2014
Outside directors alone won't help
More Japanese companies are appointing external directors to oversee their management after a number of scandals raised doubts about corporate governance in this country, but the question is whether 'outside' directors are qualified and separate from insider interests.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Japan must correct Trump’s false data for trade talks, says Kono
Former Foreign Minister Taro Kono
Japan wants to 'separate' tariff and security issues. That may be tough.
Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, poses with a "Make America Great Again" cap at the White House in Washington on April 16.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Japan set to fine cyclists on the spot for rule violations from 2026
Under new rules, those who use smartphones while riding a bicycle would be subject to the maximum fine of ¥12,000.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
Crow meat, goat tartare: Mauvaise Herbe raises its game
Crow meat, shaped into a ball and attached to a foot of the bird, is one of the peculiar offerings of game at Mauvaise Herbe.

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