Japan has 41% of the 100-year companies – secrets of 1,447-year survival

dtagames

This is terrific advice and more relevant than ever in the gaming industry, where Xbox is bleeding studios and employees, but Nintendo just gave everyone a 10% raise.

alephnerd

Most of these businesses are going to be acquired in the next 10-20 years though because most of these generational Japanese businesses are now in the midst of succession crises [0], MASSIVE inheritance tax bills [1] and family increasingly uninterested in taking up the mantle [2]. One of my friends is actually specializing in this kind of M&A in APAC now. Edit: Taking a look at the article and the images, I think this is actually AI slop. A bit shook by how photorealistic AI pictures have become [0] - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/japan-succession-crisis-priv... [1] - https://www.privateequityinternational.com/japan-tax-overhau... [2] - https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3358837/jap...

TimTheTinker

It's concerning to me how the author generated AI images and gave them captions as if they are real depictions. If I'm going to read an article about something real in society, I'm only interested in images that are true depictions of reality . They may not so perfectly capture what the author is envisioning, but the gap between "perfect for this article" and "real" is what makes a real picture interesting.

bravoetch

This article starts by repeating the same paragraph five times, then pretty much twice again with different wording. Was there even a human in the loop? I doubt it.

karahime

It should not be underrated how much of this is intentional policy environment shaping by the Bank of Japan and the Japanese government, rather than some inherently wiser management philosophy.

Madmallard

once again AI slop permeating the front page of InsiderNews

senordevnyc

Flagged as AI slop.