Rakuten Inc. will be splashing its name across "the most important shirt in the world," according to Barcelona defender Gerard Pique, after the e-commerce giant celebrated the start of its four-year, $235 million sponsorship with the iconic Spanish soccer club on Thursday. "I think they ...
German World Cup winner Lukas Podolski on Thursday vowed to bolster enthusiasm for Japanese soccerl after arriving to join Vissel Kobe, bucking a trend of big-name players moving to cash-rich China. "I know the J. League is the strongest in Asia and I am determined ...
Rakuten Chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani is named as a shareholder of a company in an offshore tax haven in the Panama Papers.
Rakuten chief Hiroshi Mikitani apparently owns part of a company in an offshore tax haven named in the Panama Papers data leak but denies trying to avoid taxes.
Going from worst to first — last place to a pennant — is difficult for any professional baseball team. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows managed to do it this past season in the Central League, and the two clubs that finished at the bottom of ...
Billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, Japan's fourth-richest man, is building a house in central Tokyo that is estimated to cost at least ¥2.3 billion, underscoring a shortage in the city's luxury housing market. The two-story house is on an 880-sq.-meter site in an exclusive neighborhood in Shibuya ...
Rakuten share prices fell further Monday than they had in four months after the owner of Japan's largest online mall said it is in talks to buy U.S. website operator Ebates Shopping.com Inc. Rakuten, controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, is negotiating the acquisition, according to ...
Rakuten Inc., the e-commerce company led by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, issued its first public bonds Friday, selling ¥30 billion of three-year notes. The operator of Japan's largest Internet mall sold ¥10 billion of 0.377 percent notes at a yield premium of 27 basis points more ...
Kenko.com Inc., a unit of Internet retailer Rakuten Inc., said it has filed a lawsuit against the government to fight restrictions on the online sale of some drugs. The government's ban is "unconstitutional," Kenko said in a statement to the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday. ...
Japan is being treated to a juicy spectacle as two of its richest and most innovative entrepreneurs brawl in public over Internet market share and visions for the future. But what's most important about the fight between Masayoshi Son and Hiroshi Mikitani is the ...
Rakuten Inc., controlled by billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani, said it has agreed to buy streaming video service provider Viki Inc. as the Internet retailer seeks to expand into new digital offerings. The companies see opportunities for Viki to boost revenue by selling more advertising against its ...
There's no shortage of pundits eager to tell Shinzo Abe how to shake up Japan's economy. Instead of looking to academics for advice, though, the prime minister should get into the trenches with some of the nation's more unconventional corporate heads. Abe talks, for example, ...
