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David Keohane

Tokyo correspondent

David Keohane is Tokyo correspondent for the FT, covering corporate Japan. Previously he was the FT's financial news editor, Paris correspondent and a reporter for FT Alphaville in Mumbai and London.
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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota shareholders re-elect chair amid governance concerns

    Akio Toyoda wins support at annual meeting on back of strong financial performance at world’s best-selling carmaker

    Close-up of Akio Toyoda
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Tokyo’s new wave of luxury hotels

    Where to experience the city’s new generation of top-end accommodation

    A living room in a corner of a suite at the Bulgari Hotel Tokyo, with a grey marble table surrounded by orange velvet chairs, and behind them a large grey corner sofa. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows can be seen Tokyo at night
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTokyo’s new wave of luxury hotels
    Designer destination: The Tokyo Edition, Ginza

    A cool Kengo Kuma and Ian Schrager production in the heart of the capital’s upscale shopping and dining district

    Brightly coloured cushions around a large white sofa in front of rattan chairs and a wooden table on the rooftop terrace at The Tokyo Edition, Ginza, which is dotted with shrubs and overlooks the city skyline
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    TDK Corp
    Apple supplier TDK claims solid-state battery breakthrough

    Smartphone battery leader says new material will boost energy storage for smaller gadgets first

    A woman working on her laptop and wearing headphones
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    News in-depthToyota Motor Corp
    Toyota makes big bet on small engines in new hybrid era

    Scaled-down internal combustion engines will sit alongside batteries in reimagined car breed

    Toyota staff with a mock-up of Toyota Motor Corp.’s 1.5L in-line 4-cylinder engine
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    #techAsia
    Apple enters AI era and EU adds EV tariffs Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessToyota Motor Corp
    Rise of EVs gives Toyota a supply chain quandary

    With the transition from traditional engines accelerating, is the automaker’s legendary supply chain a liability or an asset?

    A worker works on a vehicle at the Toyota plant in Bidadi, Karnataka, India
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    News in-depthTechnology sector
    Data leak at SoftBank joint venture sparks blame game between Tokyo and Seoul

    Japanese officials say South Korea’s Naver should cut stake in Line Yahoo on security grounds

    The two men look directly at each other from either sides of the frame
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    SoftBank Group Corp
    Elliott rebuilds stake in SoftBank and pushes for buybacks

    US activist investor wants share price to reflect $180bn value of Japanese tech conglomerate’s investments

    SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Japan’s top carmakers caught in widening testing scandal

    Transport ministry uncovers faulty data at several companies including world’s largest auto group Toyota

    Akio Toyoda
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    #techAsia
    The ‘Confucian’ edge in chipmaking and North Korea’s shadow animators Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Toyota Motor Corp
    Toyota bets on new line of combustion engines in challenge to Tesla

    Japanese carmaker unveils latest fuel-based technology to be used alongside batteries in hybrid vehicles

    Toyota chief executive Koji Sato giving a speech
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    News in-depthUniqlo Co Ltd
    Uniqlo confronts China’s newly thrifty middle class

    Japanese fast-fashion retailer has slowed store openings in world’s second-largest economy

    Shoppers look at shirts at a Uniqlo store in Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay neighbourhood
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    News in-depthSoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank targets $9bn a year in AI investments while hunting bigger deals

    Japanese group says it will ‘step up’ artificial intelligence outlays without stretching finances

    Masayoshi Son, wearing a gray suit and black turtleneck, speaks with his hands raised
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Carlyle Group LP
    Carlyle seeks to buy Christmas in Japan with KFC bid

    Private equity group’s move to take over Japanese operations of fried chicken chain is a tender offer

    A woman holding Christmas meal boxes leaves a KFC restaurant in Tokyo
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    InterviewThe CEO
    ‘We had no idea what private equity was about’: Japanese chipmaker CEO on buyout bosses

    Fumiyuki Kanai came to value KKR as a tool for change ahead of country’s biggest IPO in five years

    Fumiyuki Kanai in suit and tie with hands in trouser pockets
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Wanted: Japanese firms’ policy advice on AI, trade and crypto

    Legal expertise based on experience in government and industry is in demand to help shape regulation

    An aerial photo shows the Kumamoto factory building of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company being under construction in Kikuyo Town
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    Honda Motor Co Ltd
    Honda expects hybrid boom to last until end of decade

    Consumers have turned to hybrids because of worries about EV costs and charging infrastructure

    A Honda CRV Hybrid
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    SoftBank Group Corp
    SoftBank posts $1.5bn quarterly profit as it shifts to AI investment

    Japanese conglomerate benefits from Arm’s surging valuation and builds up war chest for artificial intelligence pivot

    SoftBank logo displayed on a glass door
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Nippon Steel
    Nippon Steel predicts ‘calmer discussions’ with unions after US presidential election

    Japanese company’s $14.9bn proposed purchase of US Steel sparked bipartisan political backlash

    Nippon Steel’s logo is on a sign outside its headquarters in Tokyo
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    #techAsia
    Grading the Chips Act and the other costs of AI Premium content

    The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

    A Samsung employee wearing a black shirt checks technological equipment in a server room
  • Monday, 6 May, 2024
    Wayve
    SoftBank leads $1bn funding for British AI group Wayve

    Investment in start-up that makes self-driving software represents Europe’s largest AI funding deal to date

    Wayve car on a road
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    News in-depthJapanese economy
    Japan used $59bn to prop up the yen but consumers may still cut back

    Government interventions this week fail to ease concerns about plunging currency

    Pedestrians walk in front of an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the Japanese yen against the US dollar
  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    Japan Tobacco Inc
    Japan Tobacco reshapes supply chains to protect Russia business

    Cigarette maker’s chief says its four factories and 4,000 workers in the country are operating as usual

    Masamichi Terabatake
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Nomura Holdings Inc
    Nomura profits soar as Japan’s stock market breaks bubble-era record

    Investment bank and brokerage boosted by surging stock and fixed-income trading

    Nomura chief Kentaro Okuda
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