Companies
Nissan Motor: Post-Ghosn, post-Honda — what the Renault entanglement still means
The 2024–2026 alliance restructuring, the failed Honda merger and the deal structures that still constrain every Nissan move.
Companies
The 2024–2026 alliance restructuring, the failed Honda merger and the deal structures that still constrain every Nissan move.
How Honda's parallel power-products and motorcycle businesses are the structural moat — and what its 2026 EV reset signals to foreign suppliers and investors.
Why the world's largest automaker runs four powertrain technologies in parallel — and what foreign suppliers, fleet buyers and investors should read into it.
ANYCOLOR (Nijisanji) and Cover (Hololive) are both TSE-listed and profitable. A B2B breakdown of the VTuber revenue mix, talent splits, agency moats and brand-collaboration opportunity.
A ranked, opinionated guide to the ten Japanese animation studios that dominate foreign-licensed output. Who owns IP, who runs on committees, and where the real deal flow concentrates.
ANYCOLOR runs Nijisanji, one of the world's biggest VTuber agencies, turning virtual talent into a fast-growing Japanese export.
Japanese green unicorn TBM makes LIMEX, a limestone-based material that can replace paper and plastic.
SmartNews built a machine-learning news app in Tokyo and scaled it into a $2B unicorn with a major US presence.
SmartHR digitised Japan's paperwork-heavy HR and labor administration, growing into a $1.6B+ unicorn eyeing an IPO.
Money Forward pairs a popular personal-finance app with cloud back-office SaaS, building a fintech ecosystem for Japan.
freee turned cloud accounting into an all-in-one back-office platform for Japan's small and medium businesses.
Tokyo-founded Astroscale is a pioneer of commercial space-debris removal, turning orbital sustainability into a business.