Japan considers Tokyo, Osaka, others for English-only finance zones

Sapporo, Fukuoka also candidates to attract overseas asset managers

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants Japan to become an asset management powerhouse by creating special business zones attractive to foreign asset management companies. (NIKKEI montage/Source photos by Reuters and Getty)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Japan will weigh up four municipalities -- Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka prefecture and Sapporo city -- as candidates for special business zones that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wants to use to lure foreign asset management companies to open for business, Nikkei has learned.

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