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Foreign investors are growing alarmed that Japan is retreating from its corporate governance reform agenda, with at least one private equity executive warning that economic nationalism is reasserting itself.
The concern marks a potential inflection point for allocators who had positioned around Japan's multi-year push to improve capital efficiency and shareholder returns.
Reform Sentiment Turns Cautious A private equity executive, cited in reporting on the shift, said the pendulum is "swinging back towards economic nationalism" — language that carries weight for foreign capital assessing country-level commitment to structural change.
The warning reflects a broader unease among overseas investors who had treated Japan's reform drive as a durable, policy-backed thesis rather than a cyclical trade.
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