It is a rarity for a young person to turn a startup into a corporate success story in Japan, but the nation's future growth may in fact depend on such youthful entrepreneurs.
Unlike in the United States, where Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates serve as shining examples of such success, Taichi Murakami is not the stereotypical 25-year-old genius. Unlike many his age, he's had only one dream since he was a child: to become a company president.
The dream came true when he founded Livesense, a job-information service, while a freshman at Tokyo's Waseda University.