SmartNews said to plan December Tokyo IPO as valuation craters
The Tokyo-based company is said to be seeking a market value of about ¥50 billion ($317 million) in the potential IPO.
The Tokyo-based company is said to be seeking a market value of about ¥50 billion ($317 million) in the potential IPO.
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday appointed Arata Takebe as her new farm minister, seeking to minimize disruption to
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TOBA, Mie -- Poor oyster growth in this central Japan city has left farmers without market-ready oysters at the start of the harvesting season, forcin
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's health ministry is warning people heading to the mountains this fall to beware of poisonous mushrooms that closely resemble e
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mizuho Financial Group Inc., one of Japan's three megabanks, said Thursday it will fully launch a three-month program next month to t
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The No. 2 reactor at the Onagawa nuclear plant in northeastern Japan will be halted around Saturday due to a small amount of water le
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The Japanese word "dasai," meaning "uncool" in English, is defined in Kodansha Ltd.'s Japanese language "Shin Gogen Jiten" (New etymological dictionar
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BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korea test-fired submarine-launched cruise missiles in the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, but the launches posed no danger to nei
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YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) -- Japanese high school pitching phenom Shoki Oda announced Thursday he will skip the Nippon Professional Baseball draft and begin pu
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index suffered the third-largest single-day point drop on Thursday, losing over 3,300 points, as selling of artifici
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has agreed with the United States on a semiconductor production project worth up to roughly $21 billion in the state of New Yor
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese police said Thursday they will set up a panel of experts to discuss measures to protect stalking victims by having offenders
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Kazuo Yana resigned as Japan's agriculture minister after just 28 days in office. But voters in his home constituency, Tochigi's No. 3 district, remai
