Rakuten president hopes to shake-up baseball industry

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroshi Mikitani, president of Internet shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc., speaks at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on Oct. 27. He said he hopes that creating a new team in Japanese baseball will breathe life into an industry desperately in need of a blood transfusion. (Kyodo)

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