Rakuten eyes market advances

SENDAI, Japan - Rakuten Inc. President Hiroshi Mikitani speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Feb. 14, 2012. Mikitani said the Tokyo-based company plans to expand its online shopping mall business to two or three more countries in 2012, in addition to the nine foreign nations in which it already operates.

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