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Leo Lewis

Tokyo Bureau Chief

Leo Lewis is the Financial Times’ Tokyo bureau chief. Until the August 2024 market turmoil, he wrote award-winning columns and features as Asia Business Editor; and was previously the FT’s Tokyo correspondent, covering financial markets, investment, banking, and a broad sweep of Japanese industry. His experience of Japan and Asia is extensive – before becoming a journalist and working in London for the Independent on Sunday newspaper, he graduated in Oriental Studies. Roles at The Times (of London) included five years as Beijing bureau chief during a period that covered the rise of Xi Jinping.
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  • Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Japan business accuses Tokyo of ‘mistake’ in US trade talks strategy

    PM Shigeru Ishiba’s insistence on total relief from Donald Trump’s levies was a miscalculation, analysts say

    US President Donald Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the White House
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    News in-depthShipping
    Japan’s shipbuilders look to consolidation to take on China

    US ally mounts most ambitious push in decades to revitalise sector dominated by Chinese and South Korean groups

    A docked shop as it is being built
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    News in-depthTravel & leisure industry
    Hongkongers scrap Japan trips over comic book’s earthquake prophecy

    Allusion in graphic novel to July 5 catastrophe hits flight bookings and group tour prices

    The cover of the manga ‘Watashi ga Mita Mirai’ (“The Future I Saw”) by author Ryo Tatsuki.
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Japanese business & finance
    Japan’s great unsticking has begun

    The end of the zero-interest era is unleashing competition in the banking sector and changes in saver and investor behaviour

    María Hergueta illustration of a woman with her arms up in wonder, looking at yen coins flying over her head
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Trump threatens to raise tariffs again on Japan

    US president casts doubt that trade deal with be reached with Tokyo before July 9 deadline

    Donald Trump talks with reporters on Air Force One
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan digs in on rice and cars as US trade talks stall

    Trump criticises ‘spoiled’ Tokyo over trade deficit ahead of tariff deadline

    US President Donald Trump and Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House in February
  • Monday, 23 June, 2025
    Japanese politics & policy
    Japan’s ruling party suffers record low result in Tokyo poll

    PM Shigeru Ishiba’s LDP defeated ahead of upper house vote next month

    Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    Sovereign bonds
    Pimco bets on long-term Japanese debt in ‘dislocated’ market

    Bond investing group buys as long-term borrowing costs soar to record highs

    Pimco headquarters in Newport Beach, California
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
    Artificial intelligence
    SoftBank chief pitches $1tn AI and robotics complex in Arizona

    Masayoshi Son has raised concept with US commerce secretary and hopes to involve chipmaker TSMC

    The TSMC fabrication plant in Phoenix, Arizona, with expansive industrial buildings under a cloudy sky, surrounded by desert landscape
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Japan scraps US meeting after Washington demands more defence spending

    Allies’ top defence and foreign policy officials were due to hold talks on July 1

    US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth, left, and Elbridge Colby, under-secretary of defence for policy
  • Thursday, 19 June, 2025
    Nippon Steel
    Trump, Japan and the era of ‘stick-holder capitalism’

    Nippon Steel’s $15bn deal for US Steel reflects a version of capitalism that does not fully serve the interests of shareholders

    Illustration of a hand gripping a stick really tightly
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Bank of Japan
    BoJ to slow exit from bond market

    Yields on long-dated government bonds surged to record highs in May

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Saturday, 14 June, 2025
    Bank of Japan
    Surge in bond yields adds to pressure on BoJ

    Policymakers to decide on how to proceed with tapering of massive bond-buying programme

    The Bank of Japan headquarters building is partially visible through a canopy of lush green trees
  • Saturday, 14 June, 2025
    United States Steel Corp
    Trump approves Nippon Steel’s $15bn takeover of US Steel

    US government to hold golden share to assuage concerns over control

    Donald Trump tours US Steel in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Oil
    Oil prices surge after Israel’s attack on Iran

    Traders fear renewed conflict could threaten supplies across the region

    Rescuers work at the scene of a damaged building after Israeli strikes in Tehran
  • Thursday, 12 June, 2025
    Business InsightJapanese business & finance
    Landmark Toyota deal sets back Japan’s corporate governance pitch

    $33bn take-private deal for the forklift truckmaker has prompted ‘bad-old-days’ complaints from some investors

    Akio Toyoda, chair of Toyota Motor
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Demographics and population
    Japan urged to use gloomier population forecasts after plunge in births

    Number of children born in 2024 already worse than median forecast for 2039

    Pedestrians, including a couple pushing a child in a pushchair, walk through Shinjuku district in Tokyo
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    Japanese economy
    Japanese queue for hours as rice shortage deepens

    Rising prices and poor harvest create political pressure for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of July poll

    People stand in a line with shopping carts. A man in a suit hands a bag of rice to a customer. The store has signs indicating the price of rice.
  • Thursday, 5 June, 2025
    Japan
    The all-seeing pen that feeds our need for motivation

    We are obsessed with self-quantification in everything from running to handwriting, but Kokuyo’s gadget goes beyond that

    Illustration of a person using a large ‘micromotivation’ pen as a pole vault
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    Toyota Industries Corp
    Shareholders lash out at $33bn take-private of Toyota subsidiary

    Toyota Industries’ shares fall 12% as minority investors feel ‘absolutely screwed’ by lower than expected offer price

    Toyota Motor chair Akio Toyoda in January 2024. He also chairs property group Toyota Fudosan
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Japanese government bonds
    Japan faces big decisions on tackling bond market volatility

    Fiscal worries and demographic changes knock demand for super-long bonds

    The old and new buildings of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Asics Corp
    Football boot makers jump out of kangaroo leather

    Japanese sportswear groups Asics and Mizuno to use alternative materials following decades of activist pressure

    Pelé turns away from the goal after scoring, raising his hands in celebration, leaving an Italian player on the ground
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Nomura Holdings Inc
    Nomura hails progress in weaning staff off smoking

    Japan’s biggest bank says it has cut proportion of smokers to just under 15%

    Signage for Nomura outside the company’s head office in Tokyo
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Japanese government bonds
    Japan’s 40-year bond sale draws weakest demand since July

    Long-dated debt sells off as concerns mount over world’s third-largest market

  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    Japanese government bonds
    Japanese bonds rally on hopes of less supply

    Finance ministry survey appears designed to confirm that demand for super long-dated JGBs is low

    A montage featuring the Bank of Japan building and Japanese yen notes
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