Kioxia shareholders urge chipmaker to share profits as Korean bonus battle spills into Japan

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• ·Korean giants like SK hynix and Samsung Electronics have faced demands for bigger bonuses as the global chip boom fuels record profits.
• ·Now their Japanese counterparts are under the same pressure, the Nikkei warns.
• ·TOKYO — Bonus disputes that have roiled Korea's semiconductor industry are spreading to Japan, where shareholders of Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia are pressing the company to increase employee payouts.
• ·The Japanese business daily Nikkei reported Monday that the global chip boom has fueled demand for larger payouts at the country’s semiconductor companies, including Kioxia.
• ·"If the company doesn't share the profits with employees, they'll simply leave for another company,” a shareholder was quoted as saying during Kioxia Holdings' annual general shareholders’ meeting in Tokyo on Thursday.