Companies
Why Couche-Tard moved on the world's largest konbini operator — and what the 2025 management-buyout fight revealed about Japan's foreign-takeover defences.
Why every foreign investment bank, asset manager and corporate borrower now routes Japan business through MUFG, and what foreign capital should understand about Japan's megabank consolidation.
From PHS reseller to Arm-and-Stargate AI infrastructure giant. How foreign LPs, sovereigns and corporates should read Masayoshi Son's machine in 2026.
The Tesla battery deal, the airline IFE monopoly, and the appliance giant trying to be three companies at once. Inside the 2022 holdco transition.
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.
