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Initiatives focused on enhancing stakeholder welfare can be a valuable route to returns and are already reshaping corporate Japan, according to NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka and Kiyomi Matsuda.

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After years of steady growth, Japan’s private equity market presents unrivalled opportunities, say NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka and Kaz Tokuyama.

Initiatives to boost workforce diversity, motivation and happiness can pay dividends for investors, explain NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka, Kiyomi Matsuda and Kurama Sato.

The depreciating yen can attract more USD investors, but GPs will need to work 'much harder' to create value in portfolio companies, Gregory Hara says at the HKVCA Asia Private Equity Forum.

The buyout shop would consider such a merger to be an ‘enabler for portfolio companies’ rather than an exit route for management, CEO Jun Tsusaka tells PEI.

Japanese private equity is entering a golden age – and empowering women in the workforce will drive further growth, says NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka and Ryoji Kanamori.

Japanese LPs increasingly view strong ESG credentials as a must-have, say NSSK’s Jun Tsusaka, Yuzuru Ichinohe and Kiyomi Matsuda.

While a handful of pan-Asian mega-funds are soaking up the majority of LP interest, some argue that local mid-market champions are most likely to deliver outsized returns for investors in Asia-Pacific.

Despite some immediate headwinds, Asia’s private equity landscape could stand to benefit from the Trump administration’s tariff policy.

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The pace of Japan’s digitalisation has been painfully slow, but it’s an opportunity private equity is keen to target. By Vicky Meek

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