hiroshi mikitani

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Last month, Rakuten (JSD:4755) acquired Viber messaging app in a $900 million deal as the Japanese ecommerce titan tries to diversify and be more social. Today, Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani

I love it when big name entrepreneurs have blogs. There’s always interesting tips and stories to follow. This time it comes from Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO and founder of Rakuten

At the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, Rakuten (JSD:4755) CEO Hiroshi Mikitani gave a talk on the progress of his company’s ‘Englishnization’ program. Below are his comments, recorded as accurately