When the Opportunist Knocks...

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• A bit of Horie history (based on TV Asahi news, 2006-01-23)
  • His first company was named "On the Edge". Just like an announcement of his future business plans!
  • His attempted takeover of Fuji Television was based on off-hours trading; these trades don't appear in the central database, so were hard for Fuji to track.
  • In his speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club (FCC) he admitted that Live Door tried "everything possible ... within the law". He cautioned that "investors---including individual investors---need to study and understand ... or they'll lose out to rogues" (like him?)

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