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...apartment towers, where it's said that rents can exceed $50,000 a month. Now, however, Horie spends his days and nights in an unheated jail cell the size of three tatami mats. On Jan. 23, a week after investigators from the Tokyo District Court Public Prosecutor's Office raided the headquarters of Livedoor, the Internet company Horie founded a decade ago, he and three other executives were arrested on suspicion of securities fraud. The 33-year-old tycoon has since resigned as CEO, leaving his company in disarray, its stock down 80% since the raid. The question now: Will...
KILLED He died during a U.S. air raid in Afghanistan in November...
...Right now, the translation is Takafumi Horie, 33, the CEO of Livedoor, the company at the center of the storm. One of Livedoor?s subsidiaries is alleged to have provided false financial information in order to boost its stock price artificially; and a Monday night raid by investigators on Livedoor offices and the homes of its executives precipitated the stock market swoon. But the glee among the staid suits of Tokyo comes from what Horie has come to represent. Over the last few years, he has become the chieftain of a tribe of internet entrepreneurs who hang...
...that scandal-and a potential five-year prison term-has tainted his persona, Horie is discovering that his fans are abandoning him. Since the raid on Livedoor on Monday, the company?s stock has dropped 52%. The press, owned by barons whom he scorned, has continued to pile on its anti-Livedoor stories. Horie has not stopped giving conferences but he looks tired and stressed while maintaining that he is cooperating with the investigation. He declares that he will be vindicated. He says that any suggestion that he will resign is ?irresponsible.? In the battle of the Hills Tribe...
...takes the reader to the edge of a gruesome scene, then steps back and focuses on the sort of mundane detail that sticks in one's mind more firmly than any blood-splattered image. Describing the immolation of suspected communist sympathizers?women and children included?in an air raid shelter, he focuses with almost casual detachment on the sound of slaughter: "Suddenly a muffled, moaning sound, kind of like the 'oooh' a crowd of people might make, rose up all around us like some sort of wind?and then, all at once, we were engulfed in flame...