As the summer vacation season - in this most extraordinary of years - gets under way and some of the more conventional newsflow slackens, this news service is republishing features that the editorial team thinks made an impression so far in 2020. 

Japan has in recent years sought to loosen up some of the corporate governance rules in order to give the economy a supply-side kick. There have been a few false dawns for Japanese equities in past years – it will be interesting to see how the market fares in future. This guest article examined how the Japanese market is working out.