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Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese executives aren’t known forbucking the establishment. Hiroshi Mikitani is a rare exceptionat a time when rebellion is most needed.
The president of Rakuten Inc., Japan’s biggest onlineretailer, turned 46 on March 11. That was the day when a recordearthquake and tsunami set off the worst nuclear crisis sinceChernobyl and forever changed the way Japanese view the reactorsin their midst. Almost five months later, the Fukushima Dai-Ichiplant is still leaking radioactivity.