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if you look at the comments, there seems to be a lot of negative views of Tatsuya Abe. Anyone from Japan (or know about Rakuten) can comment why?
by kinkora 14y ago
if you look at the comments, there seems to be a lot of negative views of Tatsuya Abe. Anyone from Japan (or know about Rakuten) can comment why?
- nicholassmith 14y agoI can't remember if it's in this article (read it in the magazine last month so my memory is foggy) or another profile on him but it said he wasn't overly popular in Japan as he's going against conventional wisdom and overall tradition. I don't know enough about the whole sociology of Japanese people and business to say whether that's accurate but he does seem to draw a lot of ire over the way he's gone about things.
- Bry789123 14y agoCheck out this Financial Times piece on Hiroshi Mikitani. It talks quite a bit about ‘Englishisation’ and the contempt felt against Rakuten.