Carlyle raises $2.3 billion for its biggest Japan fund to date
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Carlyle Group said it has raised 258 billion yen ($2.3 billion) for its biggest Japan fund to date, aiming to pick up businesses shed by conglomerates as well as companies where elderly owners have no obvious successors.It is the U.S. buyout firm's fourth Japan fund and is more than twice the size of the third, which raised 120 billion yen (922 million pounds)."More conglomerates are expected to become serious about selling their non-core businesses over the next several years..