Flashback to 2019, SoftBank made headlines when its founder, Masayoshi Son, took a gigantic loss on a personal bitcoin investment. Son had taken exposure to cryptocurrency in late 2017, when the ICO ...

Yoko Kubota is The Wall Street Journal's deputy bureau chief in Beijing, responsible for business news coverage in China including the technology, autos and consumer sectors.

Tech-led losses drag Hang Seng lower amid tariff chaos, while Nikkei and ASX benefit from Wall Street’s bullish momentum.

Here's how the Japanese billionaire lost it all and gained it back Son has been at the helm of SoftBank Group Corp. ever since ... in the wake of Beijing’s crackdown on tech firms and a flurry ...

At the very least, though, SoftBank boss Masayoshi Son can say that he just misread the potential of the failed landlord’s business model. Explaining away his decision to take a minority stake ...