By YOSHIKATSU NAKAJIMA/ Staff Writer
March 1, 2022 at 17:05 JST
Hiroshi Mikitani, chairman and CEO of Rakuten Group Inc., in Tokyo in 2021 (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Hiroshi “Mickey” Mikitani, the chairman and CEO of Tokyo-based e-commerce retailing company Rakuten Group Inc., pledged Feb. 27 to donate 1 billion yen ($8.7 million) to the Ukrainian government for humanitarian assistance following Russia’s invasion. [Read More]
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