Staff at the Bungei Shunju say that, after its February article, officials from the Keidanren, Japan's premier business association, rang to congratulate the magazine on its good work.

ECONOMIST: Japanese high-tech

Stockmarket analysts took this as a rebuttal of a vicious article in February in the Bungei Shunju, a monthly Japanese magazine, which pointed to various problems with Hikari Tsushin's sales targets.

ECONOMIST: Japanese high-tech

"He is one of the few Japanese leaders who can speak his mind clearly and openly to the public and take swift action on what he believes in, " says Matsui Kiyondo, editor-in-chief of the influential monthly magazine Bungei Shunju.

CNN: The Best Local Administrator