Economics and business

Jannie Mouton

Jannie Mouton is a South African billionaire businessman based in Stellenbosch who founded PSG Group in 1995 after being fired at 48, and co-founded Capitec Bank.

January effect

The January effect is a calendar pattern in which small-cap stocks have historically outperformed large-cap stocks in January, especially in the first trading days of the year.

Janus Friis

Janus Friis is a technology entrepreneur who co-founded Skype with Niklas Zennström, sold to eBay in 2005 for about $2.6 billion, and later founded Rdio and co-founded Starship Technologies.

Janux Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in La Jolla, California, developing T-cell engager cancer immunotherapies with its TRACTr platform; founded in 2017, it went public on Nasdaq in 2021.

Oct 15, 2026

Japan Aviation Electronics

Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited (日本航空電子工業, known as JAE), is a Japanese electronics manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, founded in 1953, making connectors, user interface solutions, and aerospace electronics.

Japan Bank for International Cooperation

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (株式会社国際協力銀行, JBIC) is Japan's wholly government-owned policy financial institution, headquartered in Tokyo, that lends and guarantees for overseas resource development, Japanese exports, and imports of strategic commodities.

Japan Exchange Group

Japan Exchange Group (日本取引所グループ) is a Japanese financial instruments exchange holding company, formed in 2013 by merging the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange.

Japan Fair Trade Commission

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC, 公正取引委員会) is Japan's sole enforcement agency for the 1947 Antimonopoly Act, investigating cartels, reviewing mergers, and issuing cease-and-desist orders and surcharges.

Oct 22, 2026

Japan Farmers' Union

The Japan Farmers' Union (Nihon Nōmin Kumiai, or Nichinō) was Japan's first nationwide farmers' organization, founded in 1922 to organize tenant farmers and lead tenant disputes.

Oct 22, 2026

Japan Industrial Club

The Japan Industrial Club (Nihon Kōgyō Kurabu) is a Japanese business leaders' organization founded in Tokyo in 1917, long known as the inner sanctum of the financial world.

Japan Post Holdings

Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd. (日本郵政株式会社) is a Tokyo-listed holding company that owns Japan Post Co., the national post office and logistics operator, with its bank and life insurer.

Japan Securities Finance

Japan Securities Finance Co., Ltd. (日本証券金融株式会社) is the only securities finance company licensed in Japan, founded in 1927 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Japan–Australia free trade agreement

The Japan–Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (JAEPA) is a bilateral free trade agreement between Australia and Japan, signed in Canberra in 2014 and in force since 2015, cutting tariffs on beef, dairy, wine, and seafood.

Japan–Indonesia free trade agreement

The Japan–Indonesia free trade agreement, or IJ-EPA, is a bilateral trade treaty signed in 2007, in force since 2008, and Indonesia's first bilateral trade agreement.

Japan–Mexico Economic Partnership Agreement

The Japan–Mexico Economic Partnership Agreement (日・メキシコ経済連携協定) is a bilateral trade and investment treaty signed by Junichiro Koizumi and Vicente Fox in 2004, in force since 2005, Japan's second EPA.

Oct 22, 2026

Japan–Song trade

Japan–Song trade (日宋貿易, Nisshō bōeki) was the commerce between Japan and China's Song dynasty from the late 10th to 13th century, carried chiefly by Chinese ships.

Japanese asset price bubble (バブル景気)

The Japanese asset price bubble (バブル景気) was the late-1980s boom and collapse in Japanese stock and urban land prices, with the Nikkei 225 peaking at 38,915 in 1989.

Japanese economic miracle

The Japanese economic miracle was Japan's exceptionally rapid postwar growth from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, lifting it from devastation to the world's third largest economy by 1970.

Japanese work environment

The Japanese work environment, also known as Japanese work culture, is the set of institutions and legal rules governing employment in Japan, marked by long tenure and overwork deaths.

Japanese yen (円)

The Japanese yen (円, 日本円), also called the Japan Yen, is the currency of Japan, issued by the Bank of Japan since 1885 and introduced in 1871.

Jardine Matheson

Jardine Matheson, also known as Jardine Matheson Holdings Limited, is a Bermuda-incorporated, Asia-focused investment holding company founded in Canton in 1832 by William Jardine and James Matheson.

Jared Friedman

Jared Friedman is an American venture capitalist, Managing Director of Software and General Partner at Y Combinator since 2015, and previously co-founded the document-sharing platform Scribd.

Jared Kushner

Jared Kushner is an American investor who ran his family's Kushner Companies, served as a senior adviser in the first Trump administration, and brokered the Abraham Accords.

Jared Vegosen

Jared Vegosen is an American trading-firm executive who co-founded DV Trading, a Chicago proprietary trading and liquidity firm, in 2006 and leads it as CEO.

Jareeporn Jarukornsakul

Jareeporn Jarukornsakul (จรีพร จารุกรสกุล) is a Thai businesswoman who co-founded WHA Corporation in 2003 and leads it as Group CEO, building one of Thailand's largest industrial-estate groups.

Jaroslav Strnad

Jaroslav Strnad is a Czech arms-industry businessman who founded Excalibur Army in 1995, built Czechoslovak Group, and took over the Tatra truck works in 2013.

Jaroslaw Kutylowski

Jaroslaw "Jarek" Kutylowski is a Polish-born, Germany-raised computer scientist who founded the machine-translation company DeepL in Cologne in 2017 and has been its chief executive since 2019.

Jarred Taylor

Jarred "JT" Taylor is an American Air Force veteran and media entrepreneur identified as a co-founder of Black Rifle Coffee Company, the coffee brand started in 2014.

Jarrett Turner

Jarrett Turner is an American private equity investor who founded Soundcore Capital Partners in New York in 2015, supervising over 100 acquisitions worth about $1.8 billion.