Fast-fashion retailer Shein Global Holdings Ltd. is planning to start gauging investor demand for its Hong Kong initial public offering as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.
Activist hedge fund Palliser Capital is urging Taiwanese company WUS Printed Circuit Co. to enhance shareholder value, including through a potential privatization, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg News.
Japan’s prime minister confirmed that a ship linked to the country has transited the Strait of Hormuz, as Tokyo continues to lobby Tehran for the safe passage of all vessels through the chokepoint.
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
Scores of Japanese college students have been obsessing over sales of toothpaste, diapers and chocolate. They have visited supermarkets and drugstores to photograph shelves, scrutinized price tags and noted which brands sit at eye level for maximum exposure.
The winner, team CC Lemon, with the prize at 4th Gyoseki Competition. Photographer: /Gyoseki
Confidence is building around Asia-Pacific private equity as exit values increase and investors’ net cash flow turns positive, though war in the Middle East threatens the recovery, according to global consultancy Bain & Co.
A screen displays rising share prices outside a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. The blue-chip Nikkei 225 Stock Average surpassed the psychologically key level of 50,000 for the first time as investor sentiment was boosted by growth optimism under Japan’s new prime minister and easing US-China frictions.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will invest 287.4 billion yen ($1.8 billion) in insurer Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., ramping up the US conglomerate’s exposure to the Japanese market.
Signage for Tokio Marine Group Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
Activist investors are piling into Japanese shipping stocks as limited shipbuilding capacity and elevated freight rates boost the value of their fleets.
Nomura Holdings Inc.’s wholesale business head expects the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates next month, even as the effects of the Iran war cloud the outlook for the economy.
Christopher Willcox Photographer: Shoko Takayasu/Bloomberg
L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by French luxury fashion house LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, is planning to invest around ¥50 billion ($313 million) in five Japanese consumer businesses over the next three years.
Elliott Investment Management has bet billions applying its tough style of activist investing to Japan. But the firm will have to wait a little longer to find out whether it can add Toyota to its list of wins.
The Toyota Industries Corp. Nagakusa plant in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda’s bid to buy out Toyota Industries could pit him against Japan’s efforts to reform its corporate landscape by demanding more shareholder accountability from top businesses.
Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. is near a deal to to acquire Dentsu Group Inc.’s headquarters building in Tokyo for about ¥300 billion ($1.9 billion), according to people familiar with the matter.
Hermes Li’s $14 billion Aspex Management HK Ltd. scored another double-digit return in 2025, when artificial intelligence and corporate governance reforms lifted Asia hedge funds large and small.
It took just $280 million of trading to push Japan’s $7.2 trillion government bond market into meltdown.
An electronic stock board inside the Osaka Securities Exchange, operated by Japan Exchange Group Inc. (JPX), in Osaka, Japan, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. Japan's governing coalition abruptly collapsed in a major blow to new ruling party leader Sanae Takaichi, plunging the country into one of its biggest political crises in decades and jolting markets.
KKR & Co.’s bid to take Yomeishu Seizo Co. private has been scuttled because the Japanese herbal tonic maker’s top shareholder doesn’t intend to sell its stake.
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte is moving to a larger office in Tokyo’s main financial district, strengthening its presence in Japan as the country’s financial markets gain momentum.
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