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Corporate Japan back in the hunt for US deals

Overseas expansion seen as vital for lenders and companies dealing with shrinking domestic market
Japanese companies are buying overseas at a time when they are flush with cash and valuations of acquisition targets are lower than they were a year ago

Approaching the peak of Japan’s asset bubble in 1988, after Japanese companies had bagged Columbia Records, InterContinental Hotels and Firestone Tire, the government in Tokyo warned everyone to curb their appetite for US assets.

Undeterred, Mitsubishi Estate two years later took control of New York’s Rockefeller Center. The deal marked a stark misreading of financial conditions and the start of a sea change in Japanese investors’ engagement with foreign deals.

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