"Japanese companies are wasting the young generations to protect older workers," said Mr. Horie, now 36.

“日本公司为了保护老职工的利益，而不惜浪费年轻一代的员工。”36岁的堀江说道。

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To understand why, many here point to the fate of one of the nation's best-known Internet tycoons, Takafumi Horie.

要理解个中原因，很多人会提到那个在日本尽人皆知的，互联网巨头堀江贵文的兴衰。

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On June 20th Takafumi Horie, a young internet entrepreneur, was led away to serve a stiff prison sentence for accounting fraud.

在6月20日，年轻的互联网企业家堀江贵文，因犯有财务欺诈的罪名而获得量刑很重的判罚。

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Meantime, 32-year-old software magnate Takafumi Horie is banging at the doors of old corporate Japan.

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Mr Horie may be an outsider, but plenty of the activist funds are run and staffed by well-connected former bureaucrats and by people in their 30s and 40s who lost their jobs or their loyalty during the banking meltdown of the 1990s.

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