Keisuke Honda's startup fund focuses on nurturing 'decacorns'

Ex-soccer player's fund to start investing domestic companies as early as February

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Keisuke Honda, a former player with the Japanese national soccer team, said he hopes to help domestic startups come out of their shells with his new investment fund. (Photo by Yutaka Miyaguchi)

KEITA SEKIGUCHI and SAKI AKITA, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Keisuke Honda, a former player on Japanese national soccer team, is launching a fund, a fund to invest in Japanese startups, with deployment of capital expected to start as early as February.

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