However, “there is nothing wrong with the Chinese investment and it is not bad news for Japanese companies,” said Yasuyoshi Masuda, an economics professor at Japan’s Toyo University.
Japan should be wary of Chinese government investment in firms with links to the military or secret technology, but otherwise “Japan’s stock market should welcome foreign capital investment,” he said.
“It’s not like the Chinese fund owns more than 50 percent of a major Japanese firm,” he added.
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