Reed Stevenson
Stories by Reed Stevenson
Inside Japan’s Nissan, a renewed push to get Renault to cut its stake
The proposal is being floated atop Nissan Motor to help balance the partnership.
Japan’s Asahi Kasei to buy Danish pharma Veloxis for $1.3b
Asahi Kasei’s acquisition is the latest for Japan’s pharmaceutical companies, which have seen a wave of deals over the past year.
Japan’s Sharp seeks to mop up $2b via share sale
Sharp is using the bulk of the proceeds to buy back 200,000 preferred shares and retire the stock. The remainder will be used on capital expenditure a
Sony partners local cab firms to launch ‘Everybody’s Taxi’ in Japan
Sony said that its seven taxi-company partners have a combined fleet of more than 10,000 cars in the capital.
Japanese startup Sansan seeks to change how we see business cards
Once business cards are scanned, the Tokyo-based startup analyzes them so that people can discover who within a company knows whom.