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Japanese Billionaire Plans Sprawling Series of ‘Trump Industrial Parks’
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son seeks to use hundreds of billions of capital from the Japan trade deal

By Robbie Whelan, Eliot Brown and Josh Dawsey

Dec. 4, 2025 9:00 pm ET

The billionaire tech investor Masayoshi Son has big dreams of working closely with the Trump administration to revitalize U.S. manufacturing—and the promise of billions in Japanese cash to help pay for it.

After months of discussions with officials at the White House and Commerce Department, the chief executive officer of Tokyo-based SoftBank Group 9984 5.96%increase; green up pointing triangle

is hammering out details of a plan that could see him marshaling hundreds of billions of dollars to build Trump-branded industrial parks around the country.

The facilities would be built largely on federal land, using funds pledged by the Japanese government as part of a recent trade deal, and would produce components for artificial-intelligence infrastructure, according to people familiar with the discussions. The funds could begin flowing as soon as early 2026.

President Trump has signaled that he supports Son’s plan in concept, according to people familiar with the matter, and discussions between SoftBank and the administration are continuing. “President Trump’s relationships with business leaders across industries and geographies are playing a key role in securing the trillions in investments that are helping build America’s next Golden Age,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement.

Details are in flux, but current plans call for SoftBank to help facilitate the construction of factory clusters, cranking out fiber-optic cable, data-center equipment and, ultimately, AI chips. Japanese tech companies would supply much of the expertise behind the new ventures, while the facilities would be owned by the federal government once built.

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