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David Keohane

Tokyo correspondent

David Keohane is Tokyo correspondent for the FT, covering corporate Japan. Previously he was the FT's financial news editor, Paris correspondent and a reporter for FT Alphaville in Mumbai and London.
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  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    SoftBank Group Corp
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    Tech founder tells shareholders he was ‘born to’ make artificial superintelligence a reality

    Masayoshi Son speaks onstage at the annual shareholders’ meeting, with executives seated on either side of him
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese business & finance
    Threat of deposit exodus haunts Japan’s regional banks

    Competition from online lenders intensifies while higher interest rates fuel concerns about sector’s financial health

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota shareholders re-elect chair amid governance concerns

    Akio Toyoda wins support at annual meeting on back of strong financial performance at world’s best-selling carmaker

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  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Tokyo’s new wave of luxury hotels

    Where to experience the city’s new generation of top-end accommodation

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  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTokyo’s new wave of luxury hotels
    Designer destination: The Tokyo Edition, Ginza

    A cool Kengo Kuma and Ian Schrager production in the heart of the capital’s upscale shopping and dining district

    Brightly coloured cushions around a large white sofa in front of rattan chairs and a wooden table on the rooftop terrace at The Tokyo Edition, Ginza, which is dotted with shrubs and overlooks the city skyline
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    TDK Corp
    Apple supplier TDK claims solid-state battery breakthrough

    Smartphone battery leader says new material will boost energy storage for smaller gadgets first

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  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
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    Toyota makes big bet on small engines in new hybrid era

    Scaled-down internal combustion engines will sit alongside batteries in reimagined car breed

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  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
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  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
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    With the transition from traditional engines accelerating, is the automaker’s legendary supply chain a liability or an asset?

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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    News in-depthTechnology sector
    Data leak at SoftBank joint venture sparks blame game between Tokyo and Seoul

    Japanese officials say South Korea’s Naver should cut stake in Line Yahoo on security grounds

    The two men look directly at each other from either sides of the frame
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    SoftBank Group Corp
    Elliott rebuilds stake in SoftBank and pushes for buybacks

    US activist investor wants share price to reflect $180bn value of Japanese tech conglomerate’s investments

    SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Japan’s top carmakers caught in widening testing scandal

    Transport ministry uncovers faulty data at several companies including world’s largest auto group Toyota

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  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
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  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
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    Toyota bets on new line of combustion engines in challenge to Tesla

    Japanese carmaker unveils latest fuel-based technology to be used alongside batteries in hybrid vehicles

    Toyota chief executive Koji Sato giving a speech
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
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    Uniqlo confronts China’s newly thrifty middle class

    Japanese fast-fashion retailer has slowed store openings in world’s second-largest economy

    Shoppers look at shirts at a Uniqlo store in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighbourhood
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    News in-depthSoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank targets $9bn a year in AI investments while hunting bigger deals

    Japanese group says it will ‘step up’ artificial intelligence outlays without stretching finances

    Masayoshi Son, wearing a gray suit and black turtleneck, speaks with his hands raised
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
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    Carlyle seeks to buy Christmas in Japan with KFC bid

    Private equity group’s move to take over Japanese operations of fried chicken chain is a tender offer

    A woman holding Christmas meal boxes leaves a KFC restaurant in Tokyo
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    InterviewThe CEO
    ‘We had no idea what private equity was about’: Japanese chipmaker CEO on buyout bosses

    Fumiyuki Kanai came to value KKR as a tool for change ahead of country’s biggest IPO in five years

    Fumiyuki Kanai in suit and tie with hands in trouser pockets
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
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    Legal expertise based on experience in government and industry is in demand to help shape regulation

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  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Honda Motor Co Ltd
    Honda expects hybrid boom to last until end of decade

    Consumers have turned to hybrids because of worries about EV costs and charging infrastructure

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  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    SoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank posts $1.5bn quarterly profit as it shifts to AI investment

    Japanese conglomerate benefits from Arm’s surging valuation and builds up war chest for artificial intelligence pivot

    SoftBank logo displayed on a glass door
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Nippon Steel
    Nippon Steel predicts ‘calmer discussions’ with unions after US presidential election

    Japanese company’s $14.9bn proposed purchase of US Steel sparked bipartisan political backlash

    Nippon Steel’s logo is on a sign outside its headquarters in Tokyo
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
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  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
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    Investment in start-up that makes self-driving software represents Europe’s largest AI funding deal to date

    Wayve car on a road
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese economy
    Japan used $59bn to prop up the yen but consumers may still cut back

    Government interventions this week fail to ease concerns about plunging currency

    Pedestrians walk in front of an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the Japanese yen against the US dollar
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