Former Internet venture star Takafumi Horie is staging a comeback, but quietly, and with far less attention than he sought during his high-tech heyday a few years ago.
The vehicle for his comeback seems to be his blog, which he finally started updating earlier this month — the first time since his arrest in 2006.
Horie, founder of Livedoor Co. and the once high-flying star of Japan's dot-com investment boom, withdrew from cyberspace two years ago when prosecutors arrested him on suspicion of securities fraud. Since then, he has endeavored to stay out of the limelight, even skipping his high court appeals trial sessions, which ended with his 2 1/2-year prison term being upheld for falsifying Livedoor's financial statements.