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 ...

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 ...

Hiroshi Mikitani sees nothing wrong with the word, incorporating it easily into our discussion about Japan's future. The internet entrepreneur and CEO of Rakuten Inc, Japan's largest e-commerce ...

SoftBank Corp. founder Masayoshi Son, an investor in all-things Web and telecommunications, and Hiroshi Mikitani, head of the country's biggest online shopping mall Rakuten Inc., are two of Japan ...

When Rakuten Inc. introduced an English-only policy for company communications in May 2010 as part of founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani's push to globalize the Japanese Web commerce firm ...

Hiroshi Mikitani, the founder and CEO of Rakuten, a Japanese company that specialises in e-trade and other online services, announced on Twitter on Sunday that he wrote to Ukraine’s president ...

The comments by Rakuten (RKUNF) CEO Hiroshi Mikitani in an exclusive interview with CNN Business are among the strongest yet from corporate leaders worried about holding the event as the country ...

Billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani said that his Rakuten Group Inc. is keen to sell more bonds to Japanese investors to help diversify funding that has been focused on overseas debt markets. “Bond ...

TOKYO, April 7 (Reuters) - Hiroshi Mikitani, chief executive of Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten Inc, said on Wednesday it was "too risky" to hold the 2020 Tokyo Olympics this summer, as the ...