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.
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.
"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.