{"id":81646,"date":"2025-09-23T19:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81646\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:12:21","slug":"japan-to-revise-investment-rules-for-startups-to-woo-foreign-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/81646\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan to revise investment rules for startups to woo foreign capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/startups\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Startups<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Young companies can pursue M&amp;As in stead of IPOs to recoup investor funds<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20250917N Startups\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">People gather at Tech Hub Yokohama, an innovation center for startups. Japan is seeking to bring its guidelines for startups and venture capital more in line with international standards. (Photo obtained by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p>MINAKO YAMASHITA, TAKUMA NAGAMORI and HAJIME TSUKADA<\/p>\n<p>September 18, 2025 02:14 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Japan will amend investment guidelines for startups in an effort to attract more overseas venture capital, part of the country&#8217;s goal to foster more unicorn companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Startups Young companies can pursue M&amp;As in stead of IPOs to recoup investor funds People gather at Tech&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[79,14074,18,236,49404,19,2003,17,386,54714,54715,238,54716],"class_list":{"0":"post-81646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-capital","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entrepreneurship","12":"tag-foreign","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-investment","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-japan","17":"tag-revise","18":"tag-rules","19":"tag-startups","20":"tag-woo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}