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

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)
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.