SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son reclaimed the crown as Japan’s richest person with shares of his Tokyo-listed investment conglomerate surging over 60% this year.

The Topix Index rose 1.6% to an all-time high of 3,107.68, with a sub-index of banks surging 9.4% this week in the biggest ...

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 has performed so terribly it seems like fiction. Yet SoftBank Group’s stock hit an all-time high on ...

PayPay has filed for a US listing that could value Japan’s ubiquitous payments company at more than $10bn and help fund some ...

SoftBank founder Son has made huge bets on AI, insisting that the giant’s future – in as little as 10 years will hinge on ...

Masayoshi Son is making his biggest bet yet: that his brainchild SoftBank will be the center of a revolution driven by ...

A new Financial Times profile of Masayoshi Son opens with SoftBank's CEO seeming to hit bottom, staring at his “ugly” face on Zoom and telling himself, “I ...

Masayoshi Son found early inspiration in Bill Gates. Jordan Strauss/AP However, self-conviction in his own "genius" appears to be first and foremost.

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son revealed that he cried for a few days when questioned about his entrepreneurship back in October because he realized that he actually wanted to be an architect.

Masayoshi Son has added about $3.8 billion to his net worth this year as the surging stock price of Arm Holdings Plc bolsters the value of his holdings in SoftBank Group Corp.

Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son on Wednesday said he believes artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence within a decade, urging Japanese companies to adopt it or be left behind.