Japan's corporate governance reform in limbo in post-Abe era

Big companies have work to do in terms of raising profitability, investors say

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Whereas the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, stressed governance reforms, the current prime minister, Fumio Kishida, touts stakeholder capitalism. (Nikkei montage/Uichiro Kasai and Ken Kobayashi)

MITSURU OBE, Nikkei Asia chief business news correspondent

TOKYO -- The biggest economic legacy of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe -- corporate governance reform -- faces an uncertain future as his successor but one, Fumio Kishida, pitches a "new form of capitalism."

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