Japan foreign-currency corporate debt offerings hit record high

SoftBank, NTT, Kioxia tap into robust investor demand for bonds

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Nippon Telegraph & Telephone and Japan Tobacco are among the Japanese companies that have come out with big foreign-currency bond offerings in 2025. (Source photos by Nikkei)

TAKAHISA TAMURA and YOSHINARU SAKABE

TOKYO -- Japanese companies issued nearly $100 billion in foreign-currency debt in the first seven months of this year, an all-time high for the period, looking to diversify their funding channels while securing capital for overseas growth.

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