As a state guest house, the Akasaka Palace in central Tokyo is used to playing host to visiting dignitaries. Last month, however, former prime minister Fumio Kishida wooed a different kind of crowd: the guests of US private equity group KKR.
Over dinner for almost a hundred of Japan’s corporate executives and their bankers, Kishida extolled the virtues of private equity and why the country needed the financiers in the room.
It was a far cry from when private equity first entered Japan a quarter of a century ago, when newspapers decried firms as vulture funds and politicians steered clear of public contact.
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