Hiroshi Mikitani, founder of Japanese e-commerce empire Rakuten Group Inc., is keeping investors on hold while his own fortune declines. Once ranked the 25th richest person in Asia, Mikitani no ...

Marketplace 3.0: Rewriting the Rules of Borderless Business. By Hiroshi Mikitani. Palgrave Macmillan; 256 pages; $27 and £16.99. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk HIROSHI MIKITANI, the boss of ...

July 31 (Bloomberg) -- Hiroshi Mikitani is the archetypal self-made billionaire who was always encouraged to think outside the box. His international upbringing played a major role as he built Japan's ...

TOKYO -- In early March, Rakuten executives Hiroshi Mikitani and Tareq Amin returned to Barcelona, the site of their fateful first meeting. On the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in 2018 ...

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 ...

Hiroshi Mikitani, whose Rakuten Group Inc. is losing billions of dollars to break into Japan’s wireless market, said he’s devoting a fifth of his time to a US-based biotech startup for cancer ...

From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos of Japan. Both lead hugely successful Internet ...

Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani is one of the world’s most powerful advocates of affordable and accessible Internet and founder of Japan’s largest e-commerce site. Mikitani will join more of the best and ...