Yasutaka Tamura

When it comes to investing, attitudes in Japan are undergoing a sweeping generational shift driven by the return of inflation and the rollout of a financial education program.

The Japanese conglomerate GMO Internet Group Inc. canceled a planned share offering of one of its listed arms, citing current market conditions as reason.

David Snoddy, who ran the Tokyo office of Tiger Management before setting up his own firm, plans to launch a Japanese stock fund next month that focuses on companies with strong cash flows, solid balance sheets and excess cash.

When Astroscale Holdings Inc. began trading in Tokyo a year ago, excitement over the Japanese space-debris pioneer was riding so high that the stock surged 62%, making it a billion-dollar company.

Multiple stocks jumped last week after activist investor Aya Nomura’s name appeared in annual general meeting letters, listed as a stakeholder.

Traders are scouring notices of annual general meetings to pick up signals about activist holdings in Japanese companies and profit from potential spikes in stock prices.

Excitement over Astroscale Holdings was riding high, but it's now the worst performer among Tokyo’s 10 biggest listings in the past year.

Toho Titanium Co. shares surged after parent JX Advanced Metals Corp. said it’s considering ways to unwind the listing of the titanium unit as Japan’s complex system of subsidiaries comes under scrutiny.

Japan’s hotelier-turned-Bitcoin-buyer Metaplanet Inc. overtook memory chipmaker Kioxia Holdings Corp. in terms of market capitalization as the stock soared nearly 400% in less than two months, riding the global crypto rally.

But not everyone is convinced Metaplanet’s rally will last, with short positions having grown to about 23% of its free float as of last Thursday.