{"id":18596,"date":"2019-04-16T21:57:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/?p=18596"},"modified":"2019-04-16T22:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:01:15","slug":"hiroshi-mikitani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibtdi.com\/en\/hiroshi-mikitani\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Hiroshi Mikitani? The Founder of Rakuten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hiroshi Mikitani is considered one of Japan\u2019s greatest entrepreneurs. He is the founder and CEO of Rakuten, one of the largest companies <\/span><\/p>\n

in e-commerce in Japan. Mikitani overcame the many challenges he faced on his path to success and is an inspiration to entrepreneurs <\/span><\/p>\n

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Hiroshi was born on May 11, 1965, in Kobe, Hyogo. He attended Hitotsubashi University, graduating in 1988, and worked at the Bank of Japan while studying. <\/span><\/p>\n

He moved to the United States in 1993, studied at Harvard Business School, and earned an MBA, <\/span><\/p>\n

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Mikitani worked at the Industrial Bank of Japan (now part of Mizuho Corporate Bank) from 1998 to 1996. He left the bank <\/span><\/p>\n

to pursue his dream of building an e-commerce company\u2014a major risk at the time, since e-commerce had yet to take off in the 1990s. After <\/span><\/p>\n

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1997, with initial capital of just \u00a5250,000. The company achieved remarkable success in a short time, becoming Japan\u2019s largest e-commerce site, and began<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mikitani became president of the company in 2001, as well as Japan\u2019s first CEO. In addition, he serves as <\/span><\/p>\n

president of the E-Commerce and Banking Unit and head of the Development Unit. His other titles include chairman of Rakuten Travel and <\/span><\/p>\n

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Mikitani gradually introduced English at Rakuten, even though the company is headquartered in Japan and all its employees are Japanese, <\/span><\/p>\n

However, he believes that English has become a business requirement today, not merely an added advantage. Mikitani\u2019s initiative to introduce English <\/span><\/p>\n

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Mikitani joined Keidanren (the Japan Business Federation) in 2004, but resigned in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in June 2011, and announced <\/span><\/p>\n

He does not support continuing to rely on nuclear power for electricity. In June 2012, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives resumed operations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mikitani serves as its representative director.<\/span><\/p>\n

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the university\u2019s highest honor. He was also named to Forbes\u2019 list of the world\u2019s wealthiest businesspeople, with an estimated net worth of approximately $7.7 billion. <\/span><\/p>\n

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