Word: takei
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...days of hard labor in prison; in Rock Hill, South Carolina. What was dubbed the "jail, no bail" tactic relieved activists of financial burden and inspired similar protests. "I guess if we had to do it today ... we'd do it again," he said in 2001. DIED. Yasuo Takei, 76, founder and former chairman of consumer-credit company Takefuji and Japan's second-richest man; in Tokyo. Takei, worth an estimated $5.6 billion, started Takefuji in 1966 with just four employees and grew it into one of Japan's most profitable companies, famously claiming to have slept only two hours...
...ARRESTED. YASUO TAKEI, 73, founder and chairman of Japan's largest consumer-credit firm, Takefuji, and the country's second richest man; for breaching Japan's telecommunications laws when he allegedly ordered his staff to wiretap the phone of a freelance journalist who published articles critical of him; in Tokyo. Takei's family fortune is estimated to be worth about $5.3 billion. His company Takefuji has also come under legal scrutiny for its alleged hardball debt-collection methods and for overworking its employees...
...Then, after reading Ima Ningen Toshite by Takeji Hayashi, he was inspired to write a letter to its publisher, Komichi Shobo Co., saying the book awakened him to reading. That connection led to a job at the small company. At 28, Takei went independent, publishing in 1989 the best-selling compilation Listen to My Story: The Blue Hearts, My Love, the authors of which included Banana Yoshimoto. Takei had yet to even rent office space...
...Takei has since published a diverse range of books from authors and artists, including Noam Chomsky, Terry Richardson and Nobuhiko Kitamura, founder of fashion brand Hysteric Glamour. It was as a publisher of photography books, however, that Little More established its edgy reputation. Takei believed that visually rich books priced at music-CD levels could be marketed to young people who don't usually read. "Little More doesn't spend any money on the look or the binding of the book at all. They spend money only on the contents, and for the contents they spend as much as they...
...Last January, Takei launched Foil, a trend magazine heavy on visuals but eschewing text and advertising. Publishers, editors and distributors told him that a magazine without text would be a dud and that one without advertising would be a terrible business proposition. But Takei believed he could take a purely visual magazine and make it profitable solely from newsstand sales. So far, the magazine has been a huge success. The debut issue initially sold out and then was reprinted. The fourth issue came out at the end of October. "I wanted to break rules...