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Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 27, 2025
Berkshire to keep Japanese trader shares after Buffett’s exit
Buffett has hailed the traders’ strategies of running a wide range of operations, including food and energy, describing them as highly diversified.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. The exchange has announced a higher bar for companies to remain listed on its startup market.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 26, 2025
Japan’s small IPOs fall to 12-year low amid market reforms
There were 43 initial share sales this year with offering sizes below $50 million, the fewest since 2013.
Oil storage tanks at Eneos’ Negishi oil refinery in Yokohama
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 24, 2025
Eneos leads bids for Chevron’s Singapore oil refinery stake
Other suitors for the 50% stake in Singapore Refining Company include commodity giants Glencore and Vitol.
A French soldier uses a drone during a training exercise at a military field near Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 21, 2025
Shift in modern warfare turns defense firms into growth stocks
Their ascent comes as the nature of warfare changes, most evident in Ukraine’s drone-led defense against Russia’s invasion.
A selection process, or "bake-off," for the SpaceX IPO is underway, with a select group of banks, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, vying for roles, four people familiar with the matter said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 20, 2025
Morgan Stanley seen as front-runner for SpaceX IPO
Elon Musk’s ties to Morgan Stanley run deep, dating back at least 15 years, leaving it widely viewed as ‍the leading ⁠contender to run the syndicate of underwriters.
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.
The SBI Shinsei Bank head office in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 17, 2025
SBI Shinsei Bank shares jump 16% in Tokyo trading debut
It had raised raised ¥322 billion in Japan’s second-biggest initial public offering of the year.
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 Nasdaq logo is displayed at the Nasdaq stock market site in New York on July 16
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 16, 2025
Nasdaq seeks to extend trading hours, as Wall Street gears up for 24/7 move
The U.S. stock market represents almost two-thirds of the market value of listed companies globally.
SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during an event in Tokyo on Dec. 1.
BUSINESS
Dec 13, 2025
SoftBank billionaire Son trims share pledges after AI rally
Son trimmed his committed shares by 19.4 million to around 154.2 million, according to a filing earlier this month.
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.
Stocks in Japan have become very expensive, encouraging firms to conduct stock splits to make their shares more accessible to individual investors.
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 10, 2025
Surging share prices in Japan lead to wave of stock splits
Stocks have become so expensive that the median minimum amount that Japanese investors need to buy shares is 10 times higher than in the United States.
SpaceX is targeting a valuation of about $1.5 trillion for the entire company in a planned initial public offering, which would leave it near the market value that Saudi Aramco established during its record 2019 listing.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 10, 2025
SpaceX to pursue 2026 IPO raising far above $30 billion
Such a transaction would make it the biggest listing of all time, exceeding the $29 billion that Saudi Aramco raised in 2019.
Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, at the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong on Aug. 29.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Dec 7, 2025
From 2600% gain to 86% wipeout, crypto’s hottest trade collapsed
The worst performers have been public companies that eschewed Bitcoin and went for smaller, more volatile tokens.
Emily Badger
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 5, 2025
Man Group’s Japan fund tilts to domestic names on stimulus hopes
The U.K.-listed fund has returned around 20% over the past year, outperforming 90% of its peers, with total assets amounting to roughly $3.6 billion.
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.
Japan’s two main stock benchmarks have chalked up annualized returns above 6% in the last five years in dollar terms, attracting international investors.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 1, 2025
Citadel and Point72 alumni to lead new Japan hedge fund
Takeo Serizawa will become chief investment officer of Hong Kong-based Invictus Investment Partners, while Tomohiro Yamaguchi will become CEO.
The value of the Bank of Japan’s holdings of exchange-traded funds reached a record high at the end of September thanks to a stock rally.
BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2025
BOJ’s unrealized gains from ETFs surge before offloading begins
The market value of the Bank of Japan’s holdings of exchange-traded funds reached a record high at the end of September, according to a financial statement.
SoftBank shares have plunged around 40% since late October as it sits at the forefront of a global AI selloff.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2025
SoftBank’s 40% slide from peak shows worry over giant OpenAI bet
Growing unease over frothy artificial intelligence valuations is weighing on shares of SoftBank Group, which traders increasingly view as a proxy for privately held OpenAI.
SoftBank Group said it is issuing a yen-denominated bond at an annual coupon of 3.98%.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 26, 2025
SoftBank ¥500 billion bond coupon highest in more than a decade
The rate on the unsecured seven-year note was set near the upper end of the previously announced range of between 3.5% and 4.1%, according to a term sheet from the company.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
Japan’s princesses face life-altering legal revisions
Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito, said in a 2022 news conference upon coming of age that she hopes to “spend a long time together” with her parents.
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
Iran war exposed, but hasn’t changed, Japan’s reliance on imported oil
Wind turbines generate energy from strong easterly winds on the Shonai Plain in Yamagata Prefecture. Despite the oil crisis caused by conflict near the Strait of Hormuz, and concerns instability in the region could continue to impact supply and the price of imports, the administration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi does not seem to be drawing on the war as a pretext to hasten progress toward Japan's renewable goals.
Six of the best: rikishi of note in each sumo division
Kazuma (right) faces off against future <i>yokozuna</i> Onosato during the All Japan Amateur Sumo Championships at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo in December 2020.
Some startups see opportunity in an aging Japan
Yasmin Baba, CTO of Amilis, wins the Grand Prize at the Pitch2Tokyo Grand Final on Feb. 19.
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."
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.

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