The investment giant behind WeWork isn’t afraid to make big, questionable-seeming bets. At the very least, though, SoftBank ...

Atsuko Fukase formerly wrote about banking and M&A deals from The Wall Street Journal's Tokyo bureau.

Flashback to 2019, SoftBank made headlines when its founder, Masayoshi Son, took a gigantic loss on a personal bitcoin investment. Son had taken exposure to cryptocurrency in late 2017, when the ICO ...

Tether, SoftBank Group, and Jack Mallers have launched Twenty One, a Bitcoin-native company, by combining with Cantor Equity Partners. Takeaway Points  Twenty One will be majority-owned by Tether, ...

Japan found itself at the target of President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade offensive, facing a 25% tariff on imported vehicles, a 24% levy on a range of other goods, and a sweeping 10% universal ...

Cantor Fitzgerald is launching a crypto venture with Tether and Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group to buy bitcoin, ...

Incorporating training data from the intricate and diverse road conditions of Japan, Wayve aims to bolster the robustness of ...

RICE AI is a robotics brand with high-profile clients such as Nvidia, Softbank, Dubai Future Foundation, Mitsui Fudosan, NTT ...

The vehicle, Cantor Equity Partners, will use the cash to create a new firm, called 21 Capital. Tether would contribute $1.5 ...

Japan’s biggest financial firms are abolishing decades-old practices that kept women off the corporate ladder.