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TOKYO -- Japan's newly revamped public-private innovation fund will target growth fields like medicine, artificial intelligence and biotechnology, moving away from its previous focus on big corporate restructuring and bailouts of ailing businesses. [1]

TOKYO -- Japan's largest public-private fund has suspended operations after a feud over executive compensation morphed into a more fundamental dispute over government's role in venture investment, leading to the resignation of nine board members. [2]

TOKYO -- The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry finds itself confronting the messy task of booting the head of a newly revamped public-private innovation fund, who has withstood pressure to step down over disagreements on business management. [3]

TOKYO -- Japan's longtime goal of establishing a sovereign wealth fund-like investment arm is on the brink of collapse, as the government locks horns with the very man it recruited to lead the endeavor. [4]

TOKYO -- The head of Japan's public-private innovation fund has announced his resignation after a bitter feud with the country's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. (confirmed by 2 sources) [5]

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[1] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-09-26 · 100% match

Revamped Japan fund will no longer bail out corporate zombies

TOKYO -- Japan's newly revamped public-private innovation fund will target growth fields like medicine, artificial intelligence and biotechnology, moving away from its previous focus on big corporate restructuring and bailouts of ailing businesses.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-12-11 · 100% match

Boardroom revolt brings Japan's state-backed fund to a halt

TOKYO -- Japan's largest public-private fund has suspended operations after a feud over executive compensation morphed into a more fundamental dispute over government's role in venture investment, leading to the resignation of nine board members.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-12-08 · 100% match

Tokyo finds ouster of fund chief harder than expected

TOKYO -- The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry finds itself confronting the messy task of booting the head of a newly revamped public-private innovation fund, who has withstood pressure to step down over disagreements on business management.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-12-06 · 100% match

Japanese government seeks to ax innovation fund head

TOKYO -- Japan's longtime goal of establishing a sovereign wealth fund-like investment arm is on the brink of collapse, as the government locks horns with the very man it recruited to lead the endeavor.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-12-10 · 97% match

CEO of Japan's innovation fund announces resignation

TOKYO -- The head of Japan's public-private innovation fund has announced his resignation after a bitter feud with the country's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-03-22 · 51% match

Masa and Donald: Why Son dabbles in politics

TOKYO -- Masayoshi Son, CEO of Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank Group, rarely hesitates to talk to national leaders. He took just such an opportunity on March 14, giving Saudi Arabia's King Salman, 81, a Pepper robot.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2019-05-26 · 46% match

Abe packs golf, sumo and dinner into busy day for Trump

TOKYO -- U.S. President Donald Trump presented a custom-made trophy to the winner of a sumo tournament in Tokyo on Sunday, marking the first time a sitting American president has appeared at an event for Japan's national sport.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2017-01-19 · 45% match

Asian CEOs jockey to win Trump's favor

TOKYO Just days after Donald Trump was elected president, SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son contacted an acquaintance with ties to the incoming U.S. leader. "I want to meet Donald Trump," Son said.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2020-09-01 · 42% match

Who is Yoshihide Suga?

This is a story from the archives, published in the Jan. 27, 2019, edition of The Nikkei.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2022-01-23 · 42% match

Tatsuo Fukuda, Japan's rising political scion, under pressure

TOKYO -- In December last year, Tatsuo Fukuda, 54, chairman of the General Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, had a dinner meeting in Tokyo that included former chair Seiko Noda -- who vied with Fumio Kishida in last autumn's LDP preside

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