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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota shareholders re-elect chair amid governance concerns

    Akio Toyoda wins support at annual meeting on back of strong financial performance at world’s best-selling carmaker

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  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    TDK Corp
    Apple supplier TDK claims solid-state battery breakthrough

    Smartphone battery leader says new material will boost energy storage for smaller gadgets first

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  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    News in-depthToyota Motor Corp
    Toyota makes big bet on small engines in new hybrid era

    Scaled-down internal combustion engines will sit alongside batteries in reimagined car breed

    Toyota staff with a mock-up of Toyota Motor Corp.’s 1.5L in-line 4-cylinder engine
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Why an 89p metro ride is a recipe for ideological conflict

    An IPO of the national treasure has been an ambition for a decade but risks facing a shift in shareholder priorities

    María Hergueta illustration of a metro train with a price tag on it.
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessDavid Keohane
    Rise of EVs gives Toyota a supply chain quandary

    With the transition from traditional engines accelerating, is the automaker’s legendary supply chain a liability or an asset?

    A worker works on a vehicle at the Toyota plant in Bidadi, Karnataka, India
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    LexDaiwa Securities Group Inc
    Daiwa stake in Aozora could help in the battle of Japan’s brokers Premium content

    Brokerage will get an edge over rivals thanks to Aozora’s ability to provide a range of loan services

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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    News in-depthTechnology sector
    Data leak at SoftBank joint venture sparks blame game between Tokyo and Seoul

    Japanese officials say South Korea’s Naver should cut stake in Line Yahoo on security grounds

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  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    LexSoftBank Group Corp
    Arm can help SoftBank hand off the activists Premium content

    Elliott Management faces a tough task getting its call for buybacks to stick

    Masayoshi Son
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    SoftBank Group Corp
    Elliott rebuilds stake in SoftBank and pushes for buybacks

    US activist investor wants share price to reflect $180bn value of Japanese tech conglomerate’s investments

    SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    LexToyota Industries Corp
    Toyota’s safety scandal will dent its hybrid renaissance Premium content

    Japanese government probe puts at risk opportunity to capture market share worldwide

    A worker on a Toyota production line
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Japan’s top carmakers caught in widening testing scandal

    Transport ministry uncovers faulty data at several companies including world’s largest auto group Toyota

    Akio Toyoda
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Yen
    Japan’s $62bn support for yen provides little reprieve

    Currency’s slide towards 34-year lows resumes as finance ministry reveals scale of market intervention

    A man walks past an electronic screen displaying yen-US dollar and other foreign currency exchange rates in Tokyo on Sunday
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Is now the time to buy Japan?

    This year’s powerful stock market rally attracted investors’ attention, but does it have staying power?

  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    LexTechnology sector
    Japan’s chip supply chain stocks are still a good way to tap AI trends

    Long-term demand for chipmaking gear and testing devices should remain high as capital investment in servers grows

    The Tokyo Electron booth at the Semicon Japan exhibition in Tokyo
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota bets on new line of combustion engines in challenge to Tesla

    Japanese carmaker unveils latest fuel-based technology to be used alongside batteries in hybrid vehicles

    Toyota chief executive Koji Sato giving a speech
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    News in-depthUniqlo Co Ltd
    Uniqlo confronts China’s newly thrifty middle class

    Japanese fast-fashion retailer has slowed store openings in world’s second-largest economy

    Shoppers look at shirts at a Uniqlo store in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighbourhood
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    News in-depthSoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank targets $9bn a year in AI investments while hunting bigger deals

    Japanese group says it will ‘step up’ artificial intelligence outlays without stretching finances

    Masayoshi Son, wearing a gray suit and black turtleneck, speaks with his hands raised
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Japan’s ‘wall of money’ is too big a temptation to resist

    Private equity funds see the country’s financial institutions and wealthy individuals as an untapped opportunity for capital

    Carmello Anthony, wearing glasses and baseball cap backwards.
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Norinchukin Bank
    Japan’s Norinchukin plans capital raise after higher rates hit bond holdings

    Lender to Japan’s agricultural sector caught out by higher interest rates

    Kazuto Oku, chief executive officer of Norinchukin Bank
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Corporate Japan’s $77bn in property gains offer target for activists

    Non-real estate companies recorded big increase in property book values in 2023, according to Goldman Sachs

    Office buildings, viewed from below, in the Otemachi business district of Tokyo
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Carlyle Group LP
    Carlyle seeks to buy Christmas in Japan with KFC bid

    Private equity group’s move to take over Japanese operations of fried chicken chain is a tender offer

    A woman holding Christmas meal boxes leaves a KFC restaurant in Tokyo
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    InterviewThe CEO
    ‘We had no idea what private equity was about’: Japanese chipmaker CEO on buyout bosses

    Fumiyuki Kanai came to value KKR as a tool for change ahead of country’s biggest IPO in five years

    Fumiyuki Kanai in suit and tie with hands in trouser pockets
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Lex
    Japanese beauty needs to look beyond China Premium content

    Chinese shoppers have been increasingly turning to homegrown beauty brands, with sales growing rapidly

    Shiseido chief executive Masahiko Uotani
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Wanted: Japanese firms’ policy advice on AI, trade and crypto

    Legal expertise based on experience in government and industry is in demand to help shape regulation

    An aerial photo shows the Kumamoto factory building of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company being under construction in Kikuyo Town
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Leo Lewis
    Radical change looms for Japanese legal sector

    Advisers are braced for more domestic businesses to become targets for unsolicited takeovers

    High-rise buildings fill up Tokyo’s skyline at dusk. In the background is Mount Fuji
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