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The parent will sell some 30 percent of SoftBank Corp. It plans to apply to the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the IPO as early as spring, which falls between March and May, and aims to debut the shares in Tokyo and elsewhere, possibly London, around autumn ... ( read original story ...)

The parent will sell some 30 percent of SoftBank Corp, aiming to debut the shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and elsewhere, possibly London, around autumn, the newspaper said, without citing any sources for the information. The IPO would rival the 2.2 ... ( read original story ...)

It seeks to gather funds from overseas investors as well due to the massive size of the IPO, which could rival the record 2.2 trillion yen that Nippon Telegraph and Telephone raised in 1987. SoftBank Group expanded in Japan with telecommunications as its ... ( read original story ...)

“The IPO was indeed a great step for us — like a ship departing from a harbor to embark on an ocean voyage,” Nagato, 69, said during a recent interview with The Japan Times at the postal giant’s headquarters in Tokyo’s Kasumigaseki distric ( read original story ...)

VILNIUS (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterparts from Latvia and Lithuania agreed Saturday to strengthen economic ties while seeking cooperation on the security front to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile ambitions. ( read original story ...)

VILNIUS (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday visited a memorial for late Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara, who is credited with helping some 6,000 Jewish refugees escape Nazi persecution during World War II. Visiting Sugihara House in ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- The term "SDG" has become the latest buzzword for corporate Japan as a growing number of companies look to integrate the United Nations' sustainable development goals into their operations. The 17 SDGs were set by the U.N. in 2015 to tackle global ... ( read original story ...)