Among U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s trades in the first quarter were stock market behemoths including Nvidia, Amazon.com and Apple. He also took a stake in a $600 million conveyor belt sushi chain.<\/p>\n
Trump bought shares of Kura Sushi USA on Feb. 2 with the transaction size in a range of around $1 million to $5 million, according to his latest financial disclosure. The restaurant group is controlled by Japan\u2019s Kura Sushi.<\/p>\n
Unlike his predecessors, Trump didn\u2019t divest or move his assets into a blind trust with an independent overseer. The filing shows that he or his investment advisers made more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter, reigniting conflict-of-interest concerns around the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Trump Organization has said all of the president\u2019s assets are managed independently by third-party financial institutions responsible for all investment decisions, and that neither Trump himself, his family nor the company is involved in making trading decisions.<\/p>\n
The investment stirred surprise in Japan with people speculating on X whether Trump had actually ever eaten raw fish and rice. Kura Sushi\u2019s U.S. business has been performing very strongly, said Tsutomu Yamada, a market analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ eSmart Securities, adding that Trump\u2019s ownership may be encouraging buying of Kura Sushi shares among retail investors in Tokyo trading.<\/p>\n
Kura Sushi shares listed in Tokyo gained as much as 5.4% on Monday, their biggest intraday gain since June 2025. According to the company\u2019s annual securities filing, Kura Sushi held about 67% of Kura Sushi USA\u2019s voting rights as of the end of October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s trades in the first quarter were stock market behemoths including Nvidia, Amazon.com and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5881,13,1162,8,19517,5436,84,405],"class_list":["post-24522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-food","tag-japan","tag-kura-sushi","tag-stocks","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-japan-relations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}