The offering is expected to be the largest U.S. IPO this year and among the 10 largest of all time ... reversed losses and gained as much as 1.9 percent in Tokyo trading on Wednesday. Investors will ... ( read original story ...)
NTT DoCoMo IPO Cements Goldman Sachs’ Leadership Position in Japan
Goldman Sachs co-leads the 1998 initial public offering of NTT Mobile Communication Network, Inc., (NTT DoCoMo), the largest IPO in history at the time. Coming in the midst of Japan's worst recession ... ( read original story ...)
Nikkei eases as caution sets in before earnings; Nissan plunges
TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei edged lower in choppy trade on Wednesday as investors stayed cautious before earnings results, but it remained around a 4-1/2-month high as sentiment was ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Heisei era: Changes, growth and tragedies
Japan’s “bubble economy” of soaring asset prices was in its final stages when Akihito ascended the throne. The Nikkei share average hit a record high of 38,957.44 on Dec. 29, 1989, but began to slide ... ( read original story ...)
Didi-SoftBank taxi-hailing JV expands to 13 cities across Japan
The app launched in September in Osaka, a popular destination for Chinese tourists, where it tied up with taxi firms to enter an increasingly crowded market for such apps that includes rivals backed ... ( read original story ...)
Inconvenient truths of Japan’s ‘combini’ culture
Japan's convenience culture covers not only ... Gwen Robinson is editor-at-large of the Nikkei Asian Review. ( read original story ...)
What Luckin Coffee’s IPO Might Mean for Starbucks
In Japan, for example, per-capita coffee consumption more than ... Luckin has not yet revealed the pricing for its IPO, but the company was valued at $2.2 billion in its latest funding round last ... ( read original story ...)
Japan’s SMBC scraps personal sales quotas
The unit of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group will no longer look at sales of such asset management products as investment trusts, insurance and foreign-currency deposits in evaluating branches. ( read original story ...)
Tennis number one Naomi Osaka joins Serena Williams at Nike
Tennis world number one Naomi Osaka has agreed a deal with sportswear giant Nike. Osaka has been on an incredible run of form in the past year, which has seen her win her first and second Grand Slam ... ( read original story ...)
LDP loses both by-elections in Okinawa, Osaka prefectures
Voter turnout in the Osaka No. 12 constituency election was 47.00 percent. The two by-elections were held after the resignations of vice land minister Ichiro Tsukada, who said he did unsolicited ... ( read original story ...)
Japan to Guide G20 Members on Crypto Regulations
The G20 summit of 2019 is scheduled to take place in the Japanese city of Osaka on 28 and 29 June. Finance ministers and central bank governors of 19 countries and the European Union will join to ... ( read original story ...)
G-20 expects growth pickup despite trade tension, financial vulnerabilities
Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said in Washington. Aso said there's a risk that growth prospects might deteriorate if the weakening outlook of key economies feed into each other. G-20 leaders are ... ( read original story ...)
Here’s why tennis star Naomi Osaka filed motion to dismiss coach’s $2 million lawsuit
The Osaka family’s attorneys say in their motion to dismiss that the alleged agreement between the coach and the girls’ father was invalid because the sisters were minors, 14 and 15 years old, at the ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka’s attorneys ask for coach’s case to be dismissed by courts
The story also has accounts from other coaches, indicating that financial constraints meant the family frequently had problems paying for lessons, but the sisters' talents led to them often being ... ( read original story ...)
Naomi Osaka’s new move in $2.8 million legal drama
The filings also claim there were flaws in the wording of the contract, and that it didn’t represent a binding financial agreement. Last month Osaka told AFP she was “not allowed to say ... ( read original story ...)
G20 finance meeting ends in Washington
Finance ministers and central bank governors ... The meeting was the first ministerial level talks before the G20 summit in Osaka in June. On the second day Japan, as chair of the meeting, raised ... ( read original story ...)