The people that get the most gains in the industry are those that establish a leadership position. For a newcomer to Japan, this leadership position could be in a niche market if the individual is creative and has guts. The Internet business and business in Japan has been a wonderful experience for me. Learning is done by doing. Like the Japanese language or computer programming, business must be done to be learned.
Technology is a tool.
I viewed technology as a tool of communication and helped to develop the Internet to promote communication among people of the world. We now live in a global communication where the ability to find information is a powerful skill. The Internet now presents enormous opportunities for people with the vision to connect people in new ways. Looking back on the early days of the Internet in Japan, I realize that many of us were blinded by the light of opportunity and failed to see the problems that would occur with the new technologies. This is perhaps why we succeeded.