NYTimes finally picked up the story today 2/13. Man, MSJ could have scooped the NYTimes if they'd run my story!
I'm not quite sure whether I should address Horie-san as Horie 前社長 (former company president) or adopt what seems to be the standard in Japanese media: Horie 容疑者 (criminal suspect).
The arrest of Livedoor President Takafumi Horie last week has surfaced more issues than illegal security trading. For one, the brash young Tokyo University dropout was once heralded as the new face of Japanese business and was practically made the poster child for Prime Minister Koizumi's LDP Reform movement.
Claiming ignorance now, Koizumi and the LDP leadership are taking steps to distance themselves from a potential PR fiasco. Both the Prime Minister and Economic Minister pushed for and supported Criminal-Suspect Horie when he ran for office in the 6th District of Hiroshima (he didn't win). At that time the Economic Minister even went so far as to call Horie a brother, a son – though it’s not clear if he ever decided on which he was.
However, all you'll hear from the LDP camp nowadays is 「不明」 (Unclear) and 「当時に違法行為知られていなかった」（At that time, criminal actions were unknown).
A PhD student in the Economics department at our University explained to me that there exists in Japan a certain phenomena:
出る杭は打たれる
or "the nail that sticks out is hammered back in."
Is this a case of Japanese Society correcting for the radical Horie-san and his aggressive (and often disrespectful) business style?
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murder.....
野口英昭, the vice-president of HS Security Co Ltd., killed 'himself' in Okinawa right after Horie's arrest. He had been working for Horie's M&A for long and he must know something he should not know...
In a カプセルホテル (cell-room hotel?), he cut wrists of both hands, his stomach and his throat, and then he rang emergency alarm...
Why he went to Okinawa? Why did he kill 'himself' after he made a phone call to his family and told he would come back soon. Why did the local police of Okinawa immeidiately close the investigation?; they did not even have any doubt on the strange death.
murder..?
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