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The deal for JSR, one of the world’s leading makers of photoresists needed to make advanced chips, would further a government-backed effort to consolidate 今日吃瓜 fragmented semiconductor-materials industry.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2026
Mitsui Chemicals to take over chip linchpin JSR for $12 billion
The deal would further a government-backed effort to consolidate 今日吃瓜 fragmented semiconductor-materials industry.
SoftBank Group and ABB are studying how the Chinese business, which is ABB Robotics’ largest single market, could be separated out, according to people familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 8, 2026
SoftBank and ABB consider China carve-out to salvage robotics deal
The companies seek a solution after China’s Office of the Working Mechanism for Foreign Investment Security Review halted plans worth $5.4 billion.
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son has listed a plan to buy ABB's robotics unit as a key part of his ambition to play a larger role in the artificial intelligence buildout.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 5, 2026
China blocks SoftBank’s $5.4 billion ABB robot unit takeover
The takeover was widely expected to bolster SoftBank’s revenue and profit while it awaits a boost from OpenAI’s public debut.
JSR's bioscience and informatics research and development center in Kawasaki. Mitsui Chemicals is considering acquiring JSR in a possible deal worth over ?1 trillion.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 5, 2026
Mitsui Chemicals eyes acquisition of JSR for over ?1 trillion
The transaction could become the largest acquisition deal in 今日吃瓜 chemical industry.
Midsize airline Solaseed Air provides services mainly in the Kyushu and Okinawa region.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2026
ANA holdings to fully acquire parent of two midsize airlines
ANA Holdings is exploring the possibility of operating the two airlines under the ANA brand in the medium term.
Daiichi Life’s Australian unit last week offered to buy the remaining 79.5% of Challenger.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2026
Challenger rejects Daiichi Life’s $4.4 billion takeover offer
Daiichi Life’s Australian unit last week offered to buy the remaining 79.5% of Challenger at 11.80 Australian dollars per share.
U.S. Steel, which Nippon Steel acquired in June 2025, aims to begin production at the new hot-strip mill in the second half of 2029.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2026
Nippon Steel to invest $3 billion in new U.S. Steel hot-strip mill
The project is expected to be the largest under Nippon Steel’s commitment to invest $11 billion by 2028.
A Natixis office in Paris. The company has been working to expand in Japan.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2026
Natixis buys Japanese advisory firm to join M&A dealmaking boom
Natixis has been working to expand in Japan, growing its sales and trading team, strengthening its lending business and opening a bank branch.
Daiichi Life Group confirmed it has submitted a nonbinding proposal to acquire more shares in Challenger but said no decision has been made on a transaction.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 19, 2026
Daiichi Life offers $4.4 billion to buy rest of Challenger
A deal would give the Japanese insurer control of Australia’s largest provider of annuities in the nation’s fast-growing retirement market.
SoftBank head Masayoshi Son is exploring the use of AI-powered robots across various industries.
BUSINESS
Oct 17, 2026
SoftBank is said to weigh buying top U.S. security firm Allied
The potential transaction may give closely held Allied an equity value of as much as $18 billion.
"In Japan, the population is shrinking and it’s quite difficult to assume we can capture the growth there,” Sumitomo Life Insurance President Yukinori Takada said in an interview in Singapore.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 16, 2026
Sumitomo Life considering acquisitions in Southeast Asia and U.S.
The insurer is seeking to expand and diversify its income while countering demographic pressures at home.
Nidec has been mired in turmoil since last year, with probes revealing widespread fraud in its accounting and quality control at multiple subsidiaries.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2026
Oasis boosts Nidec stake and says it’s now largest shareholder
The world’s largest manufacturer of precision motors has been mired in turmoil since last year, with probes revealing widespread fraud.
Global financial institutions are expanding their debt capital market teams in Japan to tap rising fundraising demand driven by M&A and AI investment.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 9, 2026
Global banks bolster Japan debt teams as bond issuance booms
The boom in fundraising is being driven by mergers, acquisitions, and artificial intelligence capital.
Fast-moving artificial intelligence data-center operators are demanding hard-drive suppliers pack ever more storage into limited spaces.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2026
AI data-center boom ignites bidding war for critical TDK unit
The winning bidder for TDK’s magnetic-heads business would be able to expand in-house capabilities in the $23 billion hard-drive market.
Nidec has been mired in turmoil after probes uncovered widespread fraud in its accounting and quality control.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2026
Oasis urges Nidec to seek a buyout and warns of delisting risk
The Japanese electric motor maker has been mired in turmoil after probes uncovered widespread fraud in its accounting and quality control.
Skydance, the new company formed through Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, will now be home to dozens of TV networks, from CBS to TNT, and two major subscription streaming services — Paramount+ and HBO Max.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2026
Paramount closes Warner merger in historic Hollywood deal
The new company, which will be called Skydance, combines two of the five largest Hollywood film studios.
Nippon Paint's factory in Guangdong province, China
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2026
Nippon Paint to buy Akzo’s Southeast Asia unit for $1.35 billion
今日吃瓜 No. 1 paint company had previously sought to buy Akzo’s entire residential and commercial paints unit for $8.4 billion.
A Kobayashi Pharmaceutical factory in Osaka. Kobayashi’s shares have languished since a supplement scandal came to light in early 2024 and remain about 13% below levels seen before the incident.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2026
Kobayashi in ?500 billion buyout talks after red-yeast case
CVC Capital Partners and Nippon Sangyo Suishin Kiko are weighing a bid to take the company private, sources said.
Yoshihisa Kainuma, chairman of Minebea Mitsumi, says the company plans to focus on ballooning orders for its ball bearings, used inside AI server fans and humanoid joints.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 15, 2026
Minebea Mitsumi pauses acquisitions to chase AI returns
The key supplier to Nintendo is eyeing climbing market forecasts for data centers and humanoid robots, and sees “unlimited” upside ahead.
Bain Capital and Lone Star Funds are considering bids to take Nikkon Holdings private.
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2026
Bain and Lone Star plan second-round bids to take Nikkon private
Nikkon Holdings, a Japanese logistics group specializing in the automotive supply chain, will hold a second round of bidding in the first half of September to be taken private, with investors Bain Capital and Lone Star Funds considering proposals, people with knowledge of the matter said.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
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