Companies
SkyActiv-X, the rotary's return as a range extender, the deepening Toyota tie and the unusual US-heavy sales mix make Mazda Japan's most contrarian automaker.
From Omi-merchant linen trader to consumer-oriented sogo shosha. Why Itochu's FamilyMart take-private, Dole acquisition and family-business culture set it apart from Mitsubishi Corp's resources playbook.
Inside Rakuten's ecosystem — Ichiba, Card, Bank, Mobile, Symphony, Englishnization — and which parts of the playbook foreign retailers, fintechs and telcos should actually copy.
Why MHI is again Japan's largest defence contractor, and what the GCAP fighter, Type 12 missile ramp and shipbuilding revival mean for foreign partners.
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.
