Can Japan hold on to its 'indispensable' companies? | FT #shorts

Japan's newfound openness to hostile M&A risk seeding and indispensibility to global supply chains that has been carefully built up over decades. Analysts say hostile bids pose both a threat and an opportunity for Japan's government, which views M&A as a way to encourage consolidation in fragmented industries, shake up complacent boardrooms, and improve corporate governance. But some Japanese officials are rushing to prevent the nation losing control over its most advanced and sensitive technologies.Industr ...