Japan Inc targets Southeast Asia with spending spree

Total Japanese investment into the region has already reached $8.94 billion this year, surpassing the full-year record. Banks and insurers such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance are leading the way.


Japan's financial groups are not indulging in the sort of foreign trophy acquisitions of the 1980s and early 1990s, which included the Pebble Beach golf course in the US.

Japan's financial groups are not indulging in the sort of foreign trophy acquisitions of the 1980s and early 1990s, which included the Pebble Beach golf course in the US.

August 23, 2013

Japanese companies have been on a gigantic spending spree this year in Southeast Asia.

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