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Leo Lewis

Financial Times

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DeepSeek hints that China has mastered the art of ‘kaizen’ — the west should be worried

The Japanese concept of continuous industrial improvement helps to explain Beijing’s technological success

30.01.2025 40

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An anti-Japan tirade takes the US back in time

Attack by Cleveland CEO is symptomatic of an abrasive environment building as Trump inauguration nears

16.01.2025 10

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Why it’s hard to be a friend of America

Nippon Steel’s bid for US Steel shows the flaws in the ‘friendshoring’ approach

02.01.2025 4

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Corporate Japan is steeling itself for hostile interest

The volume of shareholder activism and dealmaking by private equity has mushroomed

19.12.2024 20

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South Korea’s tumult is a symptom of China-US strife

As the globalisation-friendly world order fades, its new geoeconomic course is fraught with risk

04.12.2024 20

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Japan urgently needs to plug its CFO deficit

Investors expect to deal with people fluent in shareholder-focused language

21.11.2024 9

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Japan is having a moment but will it survive Trump?

Some believe the country’s economy could benefit from the result of the US election

08.11.2024 3

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How anime took over the world

The global footprint of the animated sub-genre is growing inexorably

10.10.2024 3

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Why eight Tokyo minutes from office to metro is too long

The city is seeing a boom in commercial construction but labour scarcity has made location a critical concern for companies

26.09.2024 4

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Japan has learnt a hard lesson about US friendship

The Nippon Steel experience has broader ramifications for dealmaking

12.09.2024 20

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Japan must slay its start-up zombies

The country needs to confront what it actually means to have a working capitalist metabolism

29.08.2024 3

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After 7-Eleven, Japan’s M&A scene may never be the same again

Lawyers, bankers and PE fund supremos say the stage is set for a wave of smaller-scale, exploratory unsolicited takeovers

22.08.2024 9

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Never a zealot, Fumio Kishida showed a surprising fearlessness

The outgoing prime minister steered Japan through its most life-altering three-year period since the 1980s bubble

14.08.2024 8

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The great sell-off and why the Japanese market trades like a penny stock

Investors have to understand that ‘normalisation’ after the ‘lost’ decades is going to be painful

08.08.2024 10

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Why global investors find it so easy to sell Japan

Speed and ferocity of Tokyo market correction is eye-catching

05.08.2024 3

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The yen is everything to Japan’s economy

Tacit acknowledgment of this by the country’s central bank signals a shift to more honest thinking

01.08.2024 4

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Businesses are counting the likely cost of ‘heatflation’

Some companies will be able to afford to mitigate the effects of climate change on their workforce — others won’t

25.07.2024 2

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