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Leo Lewis

Tokyo Bureau Chief

Leo Lewis is the Financial Times’ Tokyo bureau chief. Until the August 2024 market turmoil, he wrote award-winning columns and features as Asia Business Editor; and was previously the FT’s Tokyo correspondent, covering financial markets, investment, banking, and a broad sweep of Japanese industry. His experience of Japan and Asia is extensive – before becoming a journalist and working in London for the Independent on Sunday newspaper, he graduated in Oriental Studies. Roles at The Times (of London) included five years as Beijing bureau chief during a period that covered the rise of Xi Jinping.
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  • Friday, 29 November, 2024
    InterviewJapanese economy
    Japan’s pub king turns to fast food as customers ditch boozy nights out

    Watami chief says he is changing direction from ‘izakayas’ after buying Subway in the country

    Miki Watanabe
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Shigeru Ishiba
    Japanese prime minister’s portfolio outpaces stock benchmark

    Shigeru Ishiba is struggling as a politician but excelling as an investor, disclosures reveal

    Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese politics & policy
    Japan’s $250bn stimulus plan seeks to encourage more work and spending

    Sharp raising of threshold before earnings are taxed is key measure in first major initiative of new Ishiba government

    Shigeru Ishiba
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japan urgently needs to plug its CFO deficit

    Investors expect to deal with people fluent in shareholder-focused language

    Illustration of five business people sitting along one side of a table. The man in the middle has no head and the other four are looking at him
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Elliott Management Corp
    Elliott Management bets on Japan property with 5% stake in Tokyo Gas

    US activist investor plans to push Japanese company to offload some of its $9bn real estate portfolio

    Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in the film ‘Lost in Translation’
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    KKR and Bain’s $4bn takeover battle set to open up M&A in Japan

    Bankers say clash of private equity titans augurs new phase of ‘hostile’ dealmaking in country

    A Fuji Soft robot
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc
    MUFG chief says Japanese lender on track to become one of world’s biggest banks

    Hironori Kamezawa says Japan’s normalisation of monetary policy expected to benefit lenders

    Hironori Kamezawa speaks during an interview
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Special ReportBest Employers: Asia-Pacific
    Curbs on long hours spur Japanese companies to tackle productivity

    The government’s campaign against overwork could have far-reaching consequences for businesses and consumers

    A crowd of commuters walk towards the camera at Shinagawa Station, Tokyo
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Seven & i Holdings Co Ltd
    7-Eleven starts talks with ACT on $47bn takeover bid as ‘white knight’ emerges

    Japanese convenience store operator receives rival buyout offer from members of founding family

    A woman walks past a 7-Eleven sign in Tokyo
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Nissan Motor Co Ltd
    Nissan shares jump after activist investor takes stake

    Hedge fund Effissimo Capital is known for high-profile campaigns against big Japanese companies

    Workers wearing helmets and protective gear are seen assembling a vehicle on the production line at the Nissan Tochigi plant in Japan
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    Japanese politics & policy
    Ishiba wins vote to stay as Japanese premier despite election drubbing

    Country left with fragile minority government at a time of mounting geopolitical and economic uncertainty

    Shigeru Ishiba smiles in the centre of the image. He is surrounded by smiling Japanese politicians
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    News in-depthDonald Trump
    Flattery, distraction and golf: world leaders dust off their Trump playbooks

    Handling the US president-elect’s erratic personality seen as key to future relations with Washington

    Montage featuring Andrzej Duda Giorgia Meloni, Ursula von der Leyen and Emmanuel Macron in front of the US flag
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan’s new kingmaker pushes for income tax threshold rise

    Yuichiro Tamaki’s once-fringe DPP has leverage over Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s weakened ruling party

    Yuichiro Tamaki speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Friday
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japan is having a moment but will it survive Trump?

    Some believe the country’s economy could benefit from the result of the US election

    Montage of Tokyo Stock Exchange, a silhouette of Donald Trump, and an upward arrow with Yen symbols
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Yen
    Japanese official warns on ‘excess moves’ in yen after Trump win boosts dollar

    Asian currencies under pressure following US election

    Japanese 10,000 yen banknotes and US 100 dollar bills are arranged side by side.
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    News in-depthUS foreign policy
    Asia braces for steep China tariffs in second Trump term

    Former president has outlined plans to revive trade war with Beijing and questioned backing for Taiwan

    People look at the preliminary results from the US election on a TV screen at a restaurant in Hong Kong
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Bank of Japan
    Bank of Japan holds rates but signals normalisation still on track

    Political uncertainty following election upset raises risks of abrupt policy shifts, warn analysts

    Kazuo Ueda speaks at a press conference in June
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Fujitec Company Limited
    Japanese lift maker Fujitec explores sale to private equity

    Talks with multiple groups including Sweden’s EQT have taken place in recent months

    A worker tests the lift inside the Vessel in New York on October 21 2024
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan’s PM vows to stay on after election debacle

    Shigeru Ishiba has presided over a result that threatens to plunge country’s politics into paralysis

    Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Olympus Corp
    Olympus chief executive forced to quit over alleged illegal drug purchase

    Medical equipment maker says Stefan Kaufmann, one of Japan’s few foreign CEOs, likely to have breached code of conduct

    Stefan Kaufmann gestures while speaking during an interview at the company's headquarters in Tokyo in November 2022
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan plunged into political turmoil after voters punish ruling LDP

    Coalition led by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic party loses parliamentary majority

    Yoshihiko Noda walks past a screen displaying a live news broadcast of Shigeru Ishiba speaking during a lower house election night event on Sunday
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese politics & policy
    Japan’s elder election: senior voters set to dominate snap poll

    Demographics, surging prices and youth apathy in world’s oldest nation could weaken new PM Shigeru Ishiba

    two ladies of a certain age in front of election posters
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japan’s stock market is producing too many ‘punycorns’

    The country urgently needs a vibrant business pipeline to replace the unicorn’s unambitious cousin

    María Hergueta's illustration of a hand in a business suit holding a miniature red unicorn
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Tokyo Metro rises 45% on debut in Japan’s biggest IPO since 2018

    Underground railway network has raised $2.3bn in heavily oversubscribed listing

    Commuters walk past signs for the Tokyo Metro at Shimbashi station in central Tokyo
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japanese property group Tokyo Tatemono targeted by UK activist fund

    Stakebuilding by Palliser Capital follows Elliott Management's move on sector peer Mitsui Fudosan

    A pedestrian walks through the Otemachi business district in Tokyo, with tall skyscrapers and the sun reflecting off the glass buildings
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