Can Japan hold on to its ‘indispensable’ companies? | FT #shorts

Can Japan hold on to its ‘indispensable’ companies? | FT #shorts

japan’s newfound openness to hostile M&A risk seeding and indispensibility to global supply chains that has been carefully built up over decades analysts say hostile bids pose both a threat and an opportunity for Japan’s government which views M&A as a way to encourage consolidation in fragmented industries shake up complacent boardrooms and improve corporate governance but some Japanese officials are rushing to prevent the nation losing control over its most advanced and sensitive technologies industry insiders believe that Japanese companies are central to the geopolitical tussle between the US and China for control over emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence semiconductors humanoid robots and facial recognition japanese materials and equipment suppliers are indispensable cogs in the semiconductor supply chain for example as a response the Japanese government is shoring up measures to prevent takeovers by possible front companies economic espionage or the accidental transfer of intellectual property to rival nations japan plans to introduce a new investment screening law next year but this needs to be balanced with the drive to consolidate Japanese industry

Japan’s newfound openness to hostile M&A risks ceding an indispensability to global supply chains that has been carefully built up over decades. Analysts say hostile bids pose both a threat and an opportunity for Japan’s government, which views M&A as a way to encourage consolidation in fragmented industries, shake up complacent boardrooms and improve corporate governance.

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