As Son Masayoshi (孫正義) maintains and expands SoftBank Group’s position at the top of the Japanese corporate market-capitalization rankings amid its global expansion and debate over the appropriate level of tax burden, experts are reportedly questioning a profit-first management approach that includes tax avoidance.
Son Masayoshi (孫正義), chairman and president of SoftBank Group, leads a group overseeing 1250 companies in Japan.
This year, the group reportedly overtook Toyota in market capitalization on the stock market to take the top spot in Japan.
The article points out that experts have questioned Son Masayoshi’s (孫正義) profit-first management approach, including tax avoidance.
The article recounts an anecdote from the company’s early days in which he reportedly declared to the 2 initial employees he hired: “I’ll build a company whose sales can be counted in trillions, like counting blocks of tofu, 1 trillion, 2 trillion and so on.”