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(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Interviewer: Hirose Keiichi
Corporate Profile of Rakuten, Inc.
A native of Kobe, Rakuten President Mikitani Hiroshi was born on March 11, 1965. After graduating from Hitotsubashi University, he joined the Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ) in 1988. He entered Harvard University on a bank assignment in 1991. In November 1995, he left the IBJ and founded a consulting firm, the Crimson Group. He then set up another firm called MDM to run an Internet shopping mall in February 1997. In May that year, he opened the Rakuten Ichiba Internet shopping mall. In June 1999, the corporate name was ...