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...zainichi become more integrated into Japanese life, Chongyron faces extinction. A proud zainichi such as high-tech entrepreneur Masayoshi Son, one of the richest men in Japan, is emblematic of a new generation that no longer need the protection of an ethnic association, much less one tied to a dictator. The gradual rapprochement between North and South Korea has also rendered Chongyron superfluous. "When the South and the North come together over there, you don't have to pick one or the other over here," says...
...always murenai," observes political commentator Nobuhiko Shima, "outside the group. He always went his own way. Now, in Japan, outsiders are respected. It's a big change." Entrepreneurial tycoon Masayoshi Son is Korean; Nissan fix-it man Carlos Ghosn is Brazilian. Both have successfully challenged the traditional rules of Japanese business. "It is the time for the outsiders in Japan," says Shima...
...online this week to buy a Christmas present, e-mail a friend or sell a stock, and chances are you are going to click on a piece of Masayoshi Son's empire. You won't know it--and you probably don't know his name--but that's O.K. by Son. Soft-spoken, quick to smile, often cloaked in a slightly rumpled golf sweater, "Masa" Son is the unlikely man who would be emperor of the Internet. He has a 300-year--yes, that's 300-year--plan to invest in so many companies on the Web that no matter...
Among the most talked about is the Attackers Business School. Founded by Kenichi Ohmae, an illustrious Tokyo business figure who has dabbled in politics, Attackers offers a six-month course with guest lectures by star entrepreneurs like Softbank's Masayoshi Son and Masahiro Origuchi, the 38-year-old chairman of Goodwill Group, a prospering new agency for temporary workers. "These are the Michael Dells of Japan," says Ohmae. "The bright ones are jumping off the old companies, which are going to end up destroyed...
...often referred to as Japan's Bill Gates. But his $4.5 billion buying spree over the past 18 months has made Masayoshi Son something closer to the Napoleon of the multimedia business. First he swallowed Ziff-Davis, the American computer-magazine giant. Then he bought 37% of Yahoo, the U.S. Internet search-engine company. In June he and another corporate conqueror, News Corp.'s Rupert Murdoch, acquired a 21% interest in TV Asahi, which will be the entrepreneurial duo's base for a 150-station satellite network called Japan Sky Broadcast. And in September, Son's Tokyo-based Softbank paid...