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Daiwa Securities Group CEO Akihiko Ogino says the firm has restarted hiring merger advisory staff overseas and is boosting a team of cross-border deal specialists.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 23, 2025
Daiwa resumes hiring for mergers and acquisitions amid ‘vibrant’ Japan market
Japan’s second-largest brokerage had paused such hiring after U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements clouded the outlook for deals.
Sadaharu Oh waves to the crowd after throwing the first pitch ahead of a World Baseball Classic game in Fukuoka in March 2013.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 10, 2025
Nomura ties up with Sadaharu Oh to help support retired athletes
Oh, professional baseball’s all-time home run king, founded the Japan Baseball Council in May to nurture “global heroes” from the world of baseball and other sports.
Nomura Asset Management President Hiroyasu Koike says expanding staff with overseas business experience will strengthen the firm’s position as a global asset-managing competitor.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 9, 2025
Nomura sends bankers to New York and London in asset manager push
More staff with overseas business experience will boost Nomura’s stance as a global competitor in asset management, company president Hiroyasu Koike said.
Nomura Holdings CEO Kentaro Okuda vowed to build on the company’s earnings revival by strengthening businesses across the board, ranging from wealth to asset management and dealmaking.
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 2, 2025
Nomura CEO pledges big growth phase in wealth and asset management
Japan’s biggest securities firm has beaten analysts’ profit estimates for the past few quarters as households boost investments and corporate clients do more deals.
Nomura Holdings decided to fold its fledgling proprietary trading desk in London into other parts of the markets business, ditching an effort to restart the contentious practice.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 9, 2025
Nomura abandons effort to restart prop trading desk in London
The short-lived effort shows how Japan’s biggest brokerage continued high-risk bets even as executives say they’ve overhauled to focused on serving customers.
Japanese companies have raised $132 billion in foreign-currency bond and loan deals arranged by banks so far in 2025, up 56% from a year earlier.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 4, 2025
Japan’s $132 billion borrowing binge reshapes global credit
Underscoring the unprecedented shift onto the global stage, annual overseas note issuance is on course to exceed debt sales in yen for the first time ever.
Nomura Holdings CEO Kentaro Okuda
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 23, 2025
Nomura CEO seeks to tap Japan investors’ private market bets
Kentaro Okuda is looking to Japanese investors who are seeking private markets as a way to diversify their assets.
Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, during the Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong, China, in August. Japanese policymakers are taking a more positive view of crypto as U.S. President Donald Trump’s embrace of the assets bolsters the industry.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 21, 2025
Japan’s FSA may allow banks to invest in crypto assets if risks are managed
The Financial Services Agency is also considering allowing banking groups to apply for licenses to operate cryptoexchanges, according to a source.
Nomura Asset Management has formed a team made up of retired workers to help clients invest their pension funds.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2025
Nomura Asset’s new retirement solutions team consists of retirees themselves
Team leader Koji Nakamura says having employees who have actually experienced retirement allows the asset manager to better identify customer needs.
Mizuho Securities President Yoshiro Hamamoto
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2025
Mizuho vies with Nomura to manage money for Japan’s wealthy
Through its brokerage unit, Mizuho is targeting individuals with assets exceeding ¥500 million ($3.4 million).
Phishing emails posing as major securities firms spiked in Japan between March and May, topping 70,000 in May alone.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 19, 2025
Police look to crack down harder on phishing scams amid record surge
Online banking fraud surged to about ¥4.22 billion in the first half of this year, a roughly 73% jump from last year.
The new commercial real estate team fills a gap in Nomura’s securitized products and private credit unit, said Gordon Sweely, the group’s global head.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 4, 2025
Nomura builds commercial real estate platform with senior hires from Barclays
The new commercial real estate team fills a long-standing gap in Nomura’s securitized products and private credit unit.
Dan Kerrigan, CEO of Interactive Brokers Securities Japan, said inflation is here and more money is likely to move into stocks.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2025
Last man standing is bullish on Japanese stocks
Dan Kerrigan, the CEO of Interactive Brokers, has been here for decades and seen it all.
Nomura Holdings will require employees in Japan to spend two days a week in the office, double the current requirement.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 26, 2025
Nomura doubles minimum work-from-office requirement in Japan
The change is scheduled to take effect in spring next year, putting staff in Japan on par with Nomura’s global employees.
Criminals started hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world earlier this year.
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2025
Japan brokers seek to identify hackers after fraud surges
Criminals started hijacking online brokerage accounts in Japan and using them to drive up penny stocks around the world earlier this year.
Net income at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Japan more than doubled in the year ended March 31, reflecting a jump in merger advisory and underwriting business.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 6, 2025
JPMorgan leads foreign banks for Japan earnings amid dealmaking spree
Japanese companies have stepped up acquisitions as well as sales of noncore units in recent years, providing more opportunities for investment banks.
Medium-sized securities firms are raising their starting salaries in line with their bigger domestic competitors Nomura and Daiwa Securities.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 4, 2025
Nomura’s starting pay matched by Japanese rivals to retain staff
Medium-sized securities firms are raising their starting salaries in line with their bigger domestic competitors Nomura and Daiwa Securities.
The Japan Securities Dealers Association and Japan Exchange Group are discussing ways to prevent a banned trade known as spoofing, after Nomura Holdings joined a list of brokerages fined for manipulating the instruments.
BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2025
Japan considers tighter oversight to avoid bond market ‘spoofing’
Spoofing involves placing fake orders to give market participants a false impression about supply and demand to make profitable trades.
After accounts in several online brokerage were hacked, three major online brokerage firms announced they will compensate customers for half of the damage.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 27, 2025
Three online brokerages to cover half of damage from account hacking
However they will not compensate for cases in which stocks held in hacked accounts since before the hack were sold, since the proceeds remain in the accounts.
A stock board in Tokyo on Wednesday
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 25, 2025
SmartNews planning to hire Mitsubishi UFJ and Nomura for Tokyo listing
The popular Japanese news aggregation app, valued at $2 billion in 2021, may list in Tokyo as early as next year.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
Japan’s princesses face life-altering legal revisions
Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito, said in a 2022 news conference upon coming of age that she hopes to “spend a long time together” with her parents.
Japanese police arrest nine over Sierra Leone-based special fraud
Japanese police have arrested nine individuals for their alleged involvement in a special fraud case using Sierra Leone as a base.
Japanese-language education is at a turning point
The country is gradually transforming Japanese-language education from a volunteer-driven system into a professional, government-supported network to better serve its growing foreign population. 
Japan plans to sharply raise fees for residence permits from October
Foreign tourists walk on the path leading to the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in May.
X Games returns to Chiba with new team format
Skateboarder Sora Shirai practices at Makuhari Messe in Chiba on Friday afternoon. X Games Chiba begins on Saturday.
NU Festival tests Takanawa Gateway City complex’s culture cred
Veteran improvisers Kazuo Imai and Atsuhiro Ito brought some unruly energy to NU Festival, a three-day multimedia event held at the Takanawa Gateway City complex.  
Japan’s princesses face life-altering legal revisions
Princess Aiko, the daughter of Emperor Naruhito, said in a 2022 news conference upon coming of age that she hopes to “spend a long time together” with her parents.
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