Japanese people really thank those countries.
And what difference in Japan is that many celebrities expressed their donations for this disater.
Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank and large shareholder of Yahoo Japan, is one of those celebrities. He announced couple of days ago that he would personally donate 10 Billion Yen and 10 million yen each year until he step down the CEO of Softbank telecom.
He is really unique person and his name is well known to eveybody as large comapny's CEO, which is very rare in Japan these days.
Now generally, we don't know who is the CEO of Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC, Panasonic, Honda etc. Those companies once had a well-known CEO, or sometimes they were founders and took strong leadership. But now such CEO never exists except Son Masayoshi.
He graduated from UCLA in 1980, and founded his company which was a distributer of software. Since then, he built many companies, and most of them became buzz in each time.
However, almost none of them alive at the moment. But funny thing is that he personally could be one of the top executive of large telecom company. He is good at bringing in new ideas and technologies from other countries, mostly from U.S.A. And he really dislike to develop new technology in Japan. Now his company, Softbank made historically good numbers because his company is the only authorised network provider of iPhone, iPad etc. iPhone, iPad can not be connected to other network carriers such as NTTDocomo, KDDI.
He is famous for not investing in developing technologies.
One of the famous anecdotes is that he pushed the project team in Japan back in early 1980's, which aimed to develop personal computer's OS by leveraging a political pressure.
He also became one of strong obstacles for NTT to introduce their unique ADSL standards with insisting to introduce ADSL standard of U.S. His company is famous for not investing in its infrastucture as network carrier. When his company gets in trouble, he usually try to use Japanese Government to push NTT back. Last year, he tried to do that again claiming that Japanese Government should divide NTT again and establish cable optic installation company. But this time KDDI, that once used to be collaborative with SoftBank as to NTT management issue, opposed to SoftBank, because KDDI made their own effort to esbalish their own local fiber network by purchasing CATV companies. KDDI said that they can not be in a same position with the party that didn't make effort by themselves.
But he earned a lot of money and made his dream come true, which was to become large company's CEO.
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