Wow this news is actually quite surprising to me. I trade the Nintendo ADR (NTDOY), but I never kept track of the actual Japanese market cap. What I find most unbelievable is that for an economy the size of that of Japan's, a gaming company is the second largest! Of course, gaming is a bigger deal over there, but when you compare that to the fact that the largest companies here in the US are retailers (Walmart), oil companies (Exxon Mobil), banks (Citigroup), etc. its interesting that a company focused on leisure is such a big deal there.
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