{"id":591,"date":"2011-02-20T22:32:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=591"},"modified":"2011-02-20T22:32:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T13:32:21","slug":"wall-street-journal-february-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal (February 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate governance remains weak in Japan, partly because shareholders are too passive. \u201cJapan Inc. has been run, and overseen, by corporate insiders, with shareholders&#8217; interests often taking a back seat.\u201d Among especially bad practices, the Journal points to low returns, cross-shareholdings and \u201cthe massive dilutive, follow-on issues that lack compelling equity stories\u2014many of them to make up for mismanagement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate governance remains weak in Japan, partly because shareholders are too passive. \u201cJapan Inc. has been run, and overseen, by corporate insiders, with shareholders&#8217; interests often taking a back seat.\u201d Among especially bad practices, the Journal points to low returns, cross-shareholdings and \u201cthe massive dilutive, follow-on issues that lack compelling equity stories\u2014many of them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[508,4,509,200],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-news","tag-corporate-governance","tag-japan","tag-returns","tag-shareholders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}