Mergers and acquisitions activity, once largely a foreign concept in Japanese boardrooms, known mainly from American business school textbooks, is finally coming of age.
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Nidec's legendary founder, chairman and CEO Shigenobu Nagamori is known as an M&A maestro. (Photo by Toshiki Sasazu)
Mergers and acquisitions activity, once largely a foreign concept in Japanese boardrooms, known mainly from American business school textbooks, is finally coming of age.