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Entrepreneurs in Japan: Time to get started

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The mood among Japan’s would-be business moguls is at its most buoyant since the “dotcom bubble” burst a decade ago. According to one man called Takafumi Horie who’s involved in no fewer than 30 new companies, it begin from now. And by “it”, he means that the fallen Japanese entrepreneur can make a comeback. Moreover, the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is officially Japan’s first leader to treat entrepreneurs as something more than greedy hustlers…

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