Concern is already being expressed over the decision by Japan Investment Corp. to acquire Tokyo-based chip materials maker JSR Corp. for around 1 trillion yen ($7 billion) in a strategic shift to ...

Japan Investment Corp., a government-backed fund, plans to acquire chip materials maker JSR Corp. for about 1 trillion yen ($7 billion) in a move that carries major significance for domestic ...

Yokkaichi, an industrial city near Nagoya in central Japan, is where JSR Corp. first began to produce synthetic rubber in 1960. JSR still makes this archetypal old-economy material there as well as ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan stepped up efforts to bolster its chip industry on Monday, with a government-backed fund agreeing to buy semiconductor materials maker JSR Corp for about 909.3 billion yen ($6.4 ...

Japan’s government unveiled a $6.3 billion deal to buy out and privatize JSR Corp., taking direct control of the world leader in chipmaking compounds at a time US-Chinese tensions threaten to fragment ...

TOKYO -- Nikkei will remove Tokyo-based chipmaking materials producer JSR from its Nikkei Semiconductor Stock Index on May 1, the company said on Wednesday. The index provider said in a statement, ...