{"id":1011564,"date":"2026-06-02T09:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T03:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011564"},"modified":"2026-06-02T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T04:22:35","slug":"softbank-dethrones-toyota-after-over-20-years-to-become-japans-most-valuable-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/02\/softbank-dethrones-toyota-after-over-20-years-to-become-japans-most-valuable-company\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank dethrones Toyota after over 20 years to become Japan\u2019s most valuable company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s corporate pecking order has witnessed a major shake-up, with SoftBank Group overtaking Toyota Motor Corporation as the country\u2019s most valuable company, Bloomberg reported. On Monday (June 1), shares of the Masayoshi Son-led conglomerate surged 14% in Tokyo trading, taking SoftBank\u2019s market capitalisation beyond 48 trillion yen and pushing it ahead of Toyota\u2019s roughly 46 trillion yen valuation. <\/p>\n<p>The development marks the first time in over two decades that SoftBank has surpassed the automaker in market value, apart from a brief moment during Japan\u2019s dot-com bubble in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s corporate pecking order has witnessed a major shake-up, with SoftBank Group overtaking Toyota Motor Corporation as the country\u2019s most valuable company, Bloomberg reported. On Monday (June 1), shares of the Masayoshi Son-led conglomerate surged 14% in Tokyo trading, taking SoftBank\u2019s market capitalisation beyond 48 trillion yen and pushing it ahead of Toyota\u2019s roughly 46 trillion yen valuation. The development marks the first time in over two decades that SoftBank has surpassed the automaker in market value, apart from a brief moment during Japan\u2019s dot-com bubble in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011584,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011564\/revisions\/1011584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}