X Japan's Yoshiki investing in cloud computing firm Uhuru, source says
Rock star Yoshiki and software giant Salesforce.com Inc. are backing cloud consulting firm Uhuru Corp. in its next fundraising round, according to a source familiar with the plans. Tokyo-based Uhuru is planning to raise £15 million to £20 million (about ¥2.1 billion to ¥2.8 billion), ...
Take a fresh look at intangible assets
A key challenge for the economy going forward is to how to invigorate Japanese firms' investments in intangible assets.
Toshiba Machine Co.'s share price soared Monday after the company said Japan's best-known activist investor, Yoshiaki Murakami, plans a tender offer. The stock jumped as much as 19 percent, to ¥3,700, in Tokyo for the biggest intraday gain since October 2008. Toshiba Machine said late ...
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. An arm of the Japanese ...
Japan Display ends bailout talks with Chinese-Taiwanese consortium
Japan Display Inc. said Wednesday it had formally ended talks with a Chinese-Taiwanese consortium on a bailout plan that has effectively been stalled since September. The struggling display supplier for Apple Inc. said the group led by Chinese Harvest Tech Investment Management Co. did not ...
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. has established an investment fund for life sciences startups. Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Capital Co., both units of the major financial group, will invest a total of ¥5 billion for the new fund, the group announced Monday. The investment fund will support ...
Increase in environmentally friendly debt may limit slowdown of corporate bond sales in Japan
Japan's record corporate bond issuance will likely slow down, but a boom in environmentally friendly debt could limit the downside. Companies have sold ¥13 trillion worth of bonds this business year, which ends March 31, already the most ever with three months still remaining in ...
The Argument is a feature dedicated to promoting dialogue and deeper understanding of contentious issues by introducing various viewpoints. Abenomics has reportedly won praise abroad, but a security bill passed by the Diet last month has dampened confidence in global financial markets about the outlook ...
The Argument is a feature dedicated to promoting dialogue and deeper understanding of contentious issues by introducing various viewpoints. The Japanese government deserves to be congratulated for having elevated national security to a priority, with a review of financial rules and regulations an important part ...
Japan's foreign exchange law: Stricter investment rules a boon to allies, economic security
The Argument is a feature dedicated to promoting dialogue and deeper understanding of contentious issues by introducing various viewpoints. Last month, the Diet passed legislation that amended the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law. The revisions are essentially aimed at ensuring that Japan's foreign ...
Japan, China and South Korea step up banking cooperation with ASEAN for infrastructure projects
Government-backed development banks of Japan, China and South Korea have signed an agreement with public and private financial institutions in Southeast Asia to meet increasing demand for infrastructure projects in the fast-growing region. The Japan Bank for International Cooperation, the China Development Bank and the ...
A Masayoshi Son shopping list for 2020
