Mikitani Hiroshi (49) is founder and CEO of the online marketing company Rakuten (Jasdaq 4755).
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Keidanren was so impressed by Mikitani that they for a time elevated him to the position of Vice Chairman.
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Mikitani is a hands-on executive, inclined to dig into the details and micro-manage operations in new and old ventures alike.
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But Mikitani and the industrial captains who run Keidanren soon fell out.
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Mikitani will continue to do better than the giants.
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Two things give reason to hope: The leadership of e-commerce retailer Hiroshi Mikitani in the administration's reform councils and Mr. Abe's commitment to bring Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations.
Two maverick characters, one from business (Mikitani Hiroshi, the subject of this post), one from politics (Hashimoto Toru, the focus of my next post), personify the new legitimacy being accorded to change-drivers.
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But there are two reasons to hope: The leadership of e-commerce retailer Hiroshi Mikitani in the administration's reform councils and Mr. Abe's commitment to bring Japan into the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade negotiations.
Hiroshi Mikitani is holding a glass of red wine and chatting up a clique of Silicon Valley tech execs at a swanky party for Pinterest, one of the hottest startups in social media.
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Most remarkably, Mikitani, a graduate of Hitotsubashi University whose first job was with Industrial Bank of Japan (now Mizuho Bank) that sent him to Harvard for an MBA in 1993, has been driving his company to realize his global business vision.
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