Hiroshi Mikitani

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Person.png Hiroshi MikitaniRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(Billionaire, businessman)
Hiroshi Mikitani.jpg
NationalityJapanese
Member ofTrilateral Commission, WEF/Global Leaders for Tomorrow/2001, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2005
"I want [COVID-19] vaccinations to proceed at warp speed", head of Japan's biggest online retailer

Hiroshi Mikitani is a Japanese billionaire businessman.

Career

He was selected by the WEF as both a Global Leader for Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader.

As head of Rakuten, Japan's biggest e-commerce retailer,[1] Representative Director of the Japan Association of New Economy[2] stated that "I want [COVID-19] vaccinations to proceed at warp speed"[3]

About the Tokyo Olympics he commented that "The fact that we are so late for the vaccination, it’s really dangerous to host the big international event”, adding that it was "like a suicide mission".[4]

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
WEF/Annual Meeting/201922 January 201925 January 2019World Economic Forum
Switzerland
"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."
WEF/Annual Meeting/202021 January 202024 January 2020World Economic Forum
Switzerland
This mega-summit of the world's ruling class and their political and media appendages happens every year, but 2020 was special, as the continuous corporate media coverage of COVID-19 started more or less from one day to the next on 20/21 January 2020, coinciding with the start of the meeting.
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