Japanese companies cannot ignore advance of activist shareholders

Groups need to reshape before the arrival of hostile investors

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Legendary activist investor T. Boone Pickens in Japan in 1990. Shareholders like him are not as rare any more.

Activist shareholders, often detested by management as "locusts," are a permanent, if controversial, fixture of American and European stock markets.

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