Meet Shinzo Abe, shareholder activistAt last Japan has introduced corporate-governance reforms that will make a difference “STUPID, greedy, adulterous, irresponsible and threatening.” At least the Japanese vice-minister for the economy, speaking about equity investors in 2008, was being honest. Indeed, he could not have summed up most Japanese politicians’ contempt for shareholders any more pithil
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