Forbes has published a good interview with Rakuten (JSD:4755) CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, which I encourage our readers to check out. While there’s not a lot of new information here, it’s a good overall summary of the company’s expansion plans, especially in contrast with the insular, ‘old guard’ of Japan. Here’s Mikitani on Keidanren, one of Japan’s largest economic organizations which Rakuten famously left last year:
[T]hey have been trying to protect the specific interests of particular companies and industries, which is not good for Japan. We need to be more open and more global. So I decided to basically leave and create a more future-looking, more open, more global lobbying group.
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