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Tsuyoshi Inajima
Elliott Investment Management has shared its views with Toyota Industries management that the ?16,300 per share buyout offer is too low and suggested other options for the deal, people familiar with the matter say.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2025
Elliott takes Toyota Industries stake and sees buyout price as too low
Toyota Industries disclosed in a filing that Elliott Investment Management had a 3.26% stake as of Sept. 30, making it one of the manufacturer’s biggest shareholders.
Toyota Motor CEO Koji Sato speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 30, 2025
Toyota doesn’t plan better offer in privatization deal, CEO says
CEO Koji Sato said Toyota Motor has no plans to sweeten a deal involving a proposed ?4.7 trillion buyout of Toyota Industries.
A wafer fab owned by Nexperia. The Dutch chipmaker has warned 911爆料网 auto parts makers about a potential supply shortage.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2025
Nexperia warns 911爆料网 automakers of uncertain chip supply
The Dutch government seized control of Nijmegen-based Nexperia earlier this month in an unprecedented step intended to secure European access to the components made by the company.
Toyota aims to install 500 fast chargers for electric vehicles at its dealerships in Japan by the end of March 2026.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 30, 2025
Toyota steps up high-speed EV charger installations at dealerships
The carmaker aims to have 500 fast chargers installed at dealerships in Japan by the end of March 2026.
Toyota's autonomous e-Palette electric vehicle in Woven City in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Thursday
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 26, 2025
Toyota opens Woven City as doubts swirl over cost and purpose
Demonstrations included electric scooters, and automated robots that deliver groceries or park cars.
Nippon Yusen CEO Takaya Soga says the company is planning to boost its LNG fleet to more than 130 vessels by early 2029, up from 89.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 18, 2025
Japan’s top shipping company to expand LNG fleet as global demand climbs
Nippon Yusen is planning to boost its fleet to more than 130 vessels by early 2029, up from 89.
Takeover offers by foreign firms are increasing in Japan, backed by government guidelines that instructed companies to give "sincere consideration” to such proposals.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 8, 2025
Japan set for record number of takeover offers from foreign firms
Foreign firms' proposals to buy or acquire majority stakes in 911爆料网 companies are on pace to exceed last year’s record of 193.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries CEO Eisaku Ito at the firm's headquarters in Tokyo on Friday
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 1, 2025
Mitsubishi Heavy to double gas turbine capacity in two years as demand soars
Demand for the turbines has increased globally due to the proliferation of data centers, new manufacturing and continued electrification.
Steel exports from China, the world’s largest producer, have surged this year, weighing on prices.
BUSINESS
Aug 13, 2025
Japan starts anti-dumping probe into Chinese and South Korean steel goods
The investigation will probe flows of hot-dipped galvanized coil, sheet and strip, the trade and finance ministries said.
The Maruti Suzuki India e-Vitara during the Bharat Mobility Global Expo in New Delhi in January
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 4, 2025
Suzuki is becoming a top Japan importer with made-in-India cars
Suzuki beat out Mercedes-Benz to become Japan’s top car importer in June, thanks to the Jimny Nomad and another popular small SUV assembled in India.
Toyota only lifted prices on some models by a few hundred dollars in the U.S. market in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 3, 2025
Japan’s carmakers absorbing tariffs may bolster Trump's position
Just three of Japan’s six major automakers have raised prices in the U.S., and only Subaru’s hike has come close to the 25% tariff imposed on imported vehicles.
Mitsubishi Motors is raising prices on some of its models, including the gasoline version of Outlander Sport sold in the U.S. market.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 18, 2025
Mitsubishi Motors raises U.S. prices as tariffs roil carmakers
The new prices will affect vehicles delivered after Wednesday and won’t be applied to cars currently on display in showrooms.
Toyota Industries' Nagakusa plant in Obu, Aichi Prefecture. Toyota group's tender offer to privatize Toyota Industries represents an 11.4% discount to its closing price before the plan was announced.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 5, 2025
Toyota Industries buyout hinges on squeezing minority investors
In order for the buyout to work, the ?16,300 per share tender offer will need to attract enough minority shareholders to cross a 42% threshold.
Pipelines at Jera's thermal power station in Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture
BUSINESS / Companies
May 30, 2025
Japan’s top LNG importer will explore buying from Alaska
Jera, which is also the nation’s largest power producer, inked the nonbinding pact ahead of a summit in the U.S. state next week.
Nippon Yusen, Japan's biggest shipper, believes there will probably not be another decline in bookings impacted by U.S. tariffs this year.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 30, 2025
Top Japan shipper sees orders recovering as trade tensions ease
Nippon Yusen saw a robust recovery in container shipping orders following an easing in tensions between the United States and some of its trading partners this month.
Denso is expanding its agricultural business and hopes to become a key supplier of industrialized greenhouses capable of producing food in any climate.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 26, 2025
Denso in talks to buy Temasek-backed seed supplier for $500 million
A purchase would align with Denso’s ambition to become a key supplier of industrialized greenhouses capable of producing food in any climate.
Toyota Motor Corp. Chairman Akio Toyoda after a meeting in Beijing last month
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2025
Toyota chairman proposes record buyout of its supplier at $42 billion valuation
The proposal values Toyota Industries, which makes looms for textiles as well as parts for Toyota’s cars, at a premium of 40% over its closing stock price on Friday.
Hon Hai Precision Industry's chief strategy officer for electric vehicles, Jun Seki, speaks during an interview.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 9, 2025
Hon Hai makes case to build EVs for Japan’s automobile industry
Electrified cars and buses made by Foxconn, as the Taiwanese company is known, will appear on roads in Japan over the next few years, its EV strategy chief says.
Nissan is set to roll out a number of new and refreshed models in fiscal 2025 and 2026 as it seeks to halt its financial free fall.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 26, 2025
Nissan’s next CEO says it needs partners and he’s open to Honda
Ivan Espinosa, who currently serves as Nissan’s chief planning officer, takes the helm at a critical time for the company.
Many 911爆料网 companies are exporting more to the United States to get ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 5, 2025
911爆料网 firms boost exports to U.S. to get ahead of tariffs
Overall, 911爆料网 exports to the U.S. jumped 8.1% in January to ?1.5 trillion ($10 billion), the highest for the month in at least 19 years.
A beloved Tokyo penguin’s end presages Suica’s shift to payments giant
JR East is retiring the beloved Suica penguin as part of a rebrand to transform the contactless payment platform, used for both transit and retail, into a mobile fintech powerhouse.
Japan sends senior official to China to cool boiling tensions
A Chinese tour group in the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo on Sunday. China has advised its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan, following a diplomatic feud sparked by remarks from Tokyo's new prime minister about a hypothetical attack on Taiwan.
More 911爆料网 firms relax rules in tussle for workers
Hinako Mori, 22, arranges products at a Don Quijote outlet in Tokyo in October. The 911爆料网 retailer, which relaxed its rules concerning hair and nail polish three years ago, says nearly a quarter of its employees sport brightly colored hair.
What you need to know about the shift to My Number health insurance cards
With the government's integration of health insurance with My Number cards, conventional health insurance cards will no longer be accepted at clinics and hospitals across Japan from Dec. 2.
Bears attacks and sightings continue in northern Japan
A bear walks in front of a box trap set up at a park in the city of Akita on Nov. 2.
How Band-Maid brought anime energy into the hard-rock sound of ‘Scooooop’
Members of Band-Maid combine heavy riffs and maid-inspired visuals in their latest project, "Rock Is a Lady’s Modesty."
Japan uses series against South Korea to prep for World Baseball Classic title defense
Japan's Ryuhei Sotani pitches against South Korea at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night.
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South African cricket legend Jacques Kallis plays a shot during the final day of a cricket test match against India in Johannesburg in December 2013.
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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An illustration features the 911爆料网 signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
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