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MANAGEMENT 2

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 1, 2017
Japan's most-shorted stock faces AGM pressure as largest shareholder Effissimo looms
The most-shorted stock on Japan's Nikkei 225 Stock Average, a shipping line, is facing rough seas again.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 11, 2017
EGW buys Tokyo office tower for ¥30 billion with Korean investor funds
EGW Asset Management Inc., which manages about ¥200 billion ($1.8 billion) in assets, has acquired an office building in central Tokyo for about ¥30 billion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 17, 2017
A $165 billion money manager says Japan's stock gloom overdone, predicts surge after geopolitical risks ease
Japanese stocks have been battered so badly that they're too cheap to ignore, says the $165 billion investor Pictet Asset Management Ltd., after the Topix index tumbled to its fifth straight weekly loss.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 4, 2017
Activist hedge fund battles 144-year-old firm to ditch low-return ventures
Katakura Industries Co., a Japanese company founded more than a century ago, is no stranger to reinvention. Once a silk producer, it has diversified into making underwear, manufacturing fire engines, operating shopping malls and even bee-keeping.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 3, 2017
Tepco's newly appointed president vows to revive business, take responsibility for Fukushima
Tomoaki Kobayakawa said Monday he will push through reforms while fulfilling the firm's responsibilities over the 2011 disaster at its Fukushima nuclear power plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2017
App developed to help judge whether calling an ambulance is really necessary
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency comes up with a new way to cut down on unneeded ambulance runs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 21, 2017
Oasis CEO ups pressure on Panasonic for better PanaHome deal
Oasis Management Co.'s Seth Fischer has increased his pressure on Panasonic Corp. to sweeten its offer for listed subsidiary PanaHome Corp., calling the transaction a test case of whether Japan's corporate governance overhaul is working.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 8, 2017
Japan in 'tricky spot' on yen as Trump meeting looms, Pimco says
The Bank of Japan is seeking to uphold its monetary policy without giving the impression it is weakening the yen before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets with U.S. President Donald Trump this week, according to Pacific Investment Management Co.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2016
From bit actor ‘bum’ to managing $2.7 billion Japanese fund
Takahiro Kusakari went from being a self-described bum getting by on bit-part acting roles in Tokyo to calling the shots at a $2.7 billion stock fund.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 9, 2016
Ports in Japan, China, U.S. at greatest risk of natural disaster
Ports in Japan, China and the U.S. face the greatest financial risk from natural disasters because of their vulnerable locations and increasing cargo volumes, a risk-management firm has said.
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2016
Crisis management driving Japan Inc. deals as firms divest
The nation's companies are targeting mergers and acquisitions abroad as the third-largest economy stagnates, yet it is crisis management that is driving deal volume in the country this year, not international expansion.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 6, 2016
Myriad closes Japan hedge fund as Abenomics disappoints
Myriad Asset Management has closed down a Japan-focused hedge fund less than a year after opening it, after changing its view on the government's ability to end deflation through stimulus, said a person with knowledge of the matter.
JAPAN
Dec 22, 2015
Ambulance response times fall to Japan's worst ever
The average time taken to transport a patient to a hospital by ambulance following an emergency call was 39 minutes and 24 seconds in 2014, the worst on record, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2015
Mizuho Financial eyes stake in Matthews International Capital
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. said Wednesday it will take a roughly 16 percent stake in Matthews International Capital Management LLC, a U.S. fund management company with a focus on Asia, in a bid to improve the profitability of its asset management business.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2015
Telecoms tycoon Son considered trying to take SoftBank private this year
Billionaire Masayoshi Son considered conducting a management buyout of SoftBank Group Corp. earlier this year and entered talks with an overseas partner, according to people with direct knowledge of the plan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2015
Resona asset unit aims to manage ¥1.3 trillion by 2021 as savers seek returns
Resona Holdings Inc.'s new asset management unit, which opens for business on Sept. 16, expects to be overseeing ¥1.3 trillion by 2021 as households invest more of their savings because of near record-low interest rates.
JAPAN / Society
Jul 30, 2015
In first numerical empowerment goal, agency aims to double female firefighter ranks to 5% by '26
The government said Wednesday it aims to increase the percentage of female firefighters from the current 2.4 percent to 5 percent by April 2026, setting the first-ever numerical goal to improve women's involvement in the sector.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 29, 2015
Japan Post names ex-Goldman's Sago to head asset management
Japan Post Holdings Co. hired Katsunori Sago, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive in the country, as head of asset management at its banking unit as it reallocates its portfolio.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 28, 2015
Elderly Hokkaido woman arrested for allegedly killing over 100 cats
Police arrested an elderly Hokkaido woman on Wednesday for allegedly killing more than 100 cats in her care over the past 10-plus years.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2015
Discovery of drone on roof of prime minister's office highlights legal shortcomings: expert
The discovery of a hobbyist-style drone on the roof of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's office on Wednesday has revealed a blind spot in Japan's counterterrorism policies and underlined the need for greater regulation of the increasingly popular aerial devices, experts said Thursday.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.

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