Business Aug 16, 2017

Ex-Nomura salesman exiled in Chicago goes hostile at tiny Japan firms

by Tom Redmond and Nao Sano

From downtown Chicago, a former Nomura Holdings Inc. salesman is taking activist investing to Japan's smaller listed firms, betting that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's corporate governance overhaul is trickling down to less-covered parts of the market. Masakazu Hosomizu, who works for the ¥890 billion ($8.1 ...