Shimane Bank (7150 JP): And Behold, a Pale Knight
The stock price of Shimane Bank Ltd/ The (7150 JP), a tiny, struggling Japanese secondary regional bank from Shimane Prefecture in the Chugoku...
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Rakuten Focuses on Rakuten Ichiba as Sales Surge Again
Rakuten's (4755 JP) CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani, took his eye off the original online mall business in the last five years as he focused on trying to...
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Japan Telcos: Softbank Ends the Contract Regime but Other Retention Factors Play a Role
Softbank Corp. will end two-year contracts for mobile customers later this month. This follows regulatory action that requires mobile operators to...
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SONY's Good Governance Sale: The OLYMPUS (7733) ToSTNeT-3 Buyback
Yesterday after the close, Olympus Corp (7733 JP) announced that Sony Corp (6758 JP) had approached Olympus saying it wished to sell its 68,975,800...
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ASKUL: Post AGM Shakeout, ASKUL Independence Means Less Event-y, More Drifty-Growthy
Three weeks ago the Askul Corp (2678 JP) AGM dethroned founder and former CEO Iwata Shoichiro, and left former COO Yoshioka Akira as new CEO (2 Aug...
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