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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

A stock board in Tokyo earlier this month. Corporate governance reforms aimed at improving shareholder returns are helping to transform Japan into a hive of activity when it comes to mergers and acquisitions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 20, 2025
Record $350 billion deals boom fuels upbeat M&A outlook in Japan
Corporate governance reforms aimed at improving shareholder returns are helping to transform Japan into a hive of activity.
Shigenobu Nagamori
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 20, 2025
Nidec chairman quits board after spate of accounting issues
The move follows the discovery of accounting issues that damaged the reputation of the Japanese maker of electric motors.
Elon Musk attends the Breakthrough Prize awards in Los Angeles in April 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 20, 2025
Musk 2018 Tesla pay plan reinstated after seven-year legal fight
The Delaware high court concluded the world’s richest person is entitled to a stock-based compensation plan now valued at about $140 billion.
Logo of 7-Eleven is displayed at a convenience store in Tokyo in March.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 20, 2025
CEO of 7-Eleven USA retires as company undergoes broader revamp
Joe DePinto, who was CEO for two decades and orchestrated its expansion through the acquisition of Speedway and Sunoco gasoline stations, will retire at the end of this month.
Toyota Industries, whose shares are worth ¥5.6 trillion, was offered a buyout price in June nearly ¥1 trillion, or 16%, below the value of its holdings.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 19, 2025
Toyota Industries buyout bid dips 16% below stock holdings
The gap between the take-private proposal and the value of Toyota Industries’ holdings has become a major sticking point for activist fund Elliott Investment Management.
Akio Toyoda, the chairman of Toyota Motor, leads unlisted real estate company Toyota Fudosan, which is leading the offer to take Toyota Industries private.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 18, 2025
Elliott woos other Toyota industries investors in buyout fight
The activist fund wants to push Toyota group to sweeten its ¥4.7 trillion bid.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is pushing companies to improve capital efficiency and tightening listing standards, prompting more buyouts.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 18, 2025
Activist pushback in Japan management buyouts drives higher bids and share gains
Japan’s equity markets are shifting, with the Tokyo Stock Exchange pushing companies to improve capital efficiency and tightening listing standards, prompting more buyouts.
Fuji Media Holdings has rejected investors’ calls for a spinoff of its valuable but noncore real estate arm.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 16, 2025
Fuji Media shares jump on activist Nomura’s threat to take 33.3%
The pressure comes as Fuji is trying to recover from a sexual assault scandal that has damaged its reputation and cost it sponsors and viewers.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. Unlike conventional keyword-based search tools, the AI service for searching through disclosure materials allows for prompts such as "companies whose dividend predictions rose at least 20%."
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 10, 2025
Japan exchange launches AI-powered disclosure search service
With around 150,000 disclosure documents filed each year, the service is aimed at improving investor convenience by enhancing search functions.
Japan still trails the U.S. and Europe in cyber defense, and broad improvements across the corporate sector are needed, National Cyber Director Yoichi Iida said in an interview on the sidelines of a cybersecurity conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2025
Japan’s cyber chief warns nation still behind on cybersecurity
Cybersecurity has been highlighted as one of the priority investment areas under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration, amid a string of recent breaches.
The number of Japanese firms trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is on track to drop by 58 to 3,778 by the end of the year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 4, 2025
M&A boom fuels record decline in Japan’s listed companies
The number of Japanese firms trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is on track to drop by 58 to 3,778 by the end of the year.
An employee places food items made in-store on the shelves at a Ministop convenience store outlet in the city of Chiba in October.
BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Dec 1, 2025
Scandal puts Ministop’s handmade onigiri at crossroads
This summer, Ministop acknowledged that workers at 25 domestic stores falsified consume-by dates on onigiri, deli items and other foods prepared in store.
Atsushi Katsuki, CEO of Asahi Group Holdings, at a news conference on Thursday
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 27, 2025
Asahi CEO says ransomware attack might have caused 1.9 million data leaks
Exposed data may include email addresses and phone numbers, but credit card information is not included in this data exposure, according to Asahi.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says it has filed a lawsuit in Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court against Wei-Jen Lo, its former senior vice president.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 27, 2025
Intel denies TSMC allegations that executive leaked trade secrets
TSMC said Tuesday it had filed a lawsuit in Taiwan’s Intellectual Property and Commercial Court against Wei-Jen Lo, its former senior vice president.
Pop star Taichi Kokubun bows during a news conference in Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 27, 2025
Japanese pop star Taichi Kokubun apologizes for compliance violation
It was the former Tokio member’s first public appearance since his removal from Nippon TV’s popular variety show “The Tetsuwan Dash” in June.
Ginza gCube (center)
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 25, 2025
Tokyo Gas said to plan sale of Ginza building for $191 million
Mantomi Asset submitted the highest bid for the building being sold, Ginza gCube.
Tech firms including Microsoft were among those represented on a provisional U.N. list of attendees of the official COP30 summit.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 24, 2025
U.S. companies hold the line at climate talks despite Trump
With threats to factories, supply chains and the bottom line, company executives said they didn’t think now was a good time to opt out of the climate conversation.
Some Japanese government bond traders have noted Japan Exchange Group's rules were opaque enough that almost anyone could be tripped up and lose their job.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2025
Japan exchange to revise guidelines to curb JGB futures spoofing
As the line between spoofing and regular transactions can be contentious, traders would benefit from clearer guidance.
Auction house Christie's in New York. DIC is selling some of its holdings of valuable artworks at the auction house.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 18, 2025
Japanese ink maker sells off Monet and Renoir paintings as activists circle
Oasis Management, DIC’s second-largest shareholder, has called on the company to sell off its holdings, saying that paintings aren’t part of the firm’s core business.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Friday that Japanese businesses are focusing too much on shareholders, expressing frustration that companies are not using more capital to raise wages.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 14, 2025
Takaichi pushes back against companies’ focus on shareholders
The Prime Minister’s comments flicked at her frustration with firms for not using more capital to raise wages.
Uruguay federation reportedly cancels charter flight after World Cup exit
Uruguay's Jose Maria Gimenez reacts after the team's loss against Spain at the 2026 FIFA World Cup on Friday.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
India’s gig workers pay the price for exposure to New Delhi’s hazardous air
Rohit Kushwaha waits for a customer as he delivers his last parcel of the day, in New Delhi in January. His work as a delivery driver has helped pay the family’s bills, but has had a significant impact on his health.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Yen hits 40-year low against the dollar, breaking ¥162 level
Japan's currency broke ¥162 to the dollar on Tuesday in Tokyo.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.
‘The colors speak for themselves’: How Japan’s chroma bible went global
“A Dictionary of Color Combinations” is meant to function as a quick-reference guide for artists, designers and anyone with a passing interest in aesthetics as a quantifiable pursuit.

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