The Osaka prefectural police is investigating 'Orben', a public company, for securities fraud. Orben acquired 16 companies in two years from 2004. Orben executives allegedly reported false income and revenue for their subsidiaries. Supposedly, owners of Orben had sold their stocks at very high prices.

An industry expert says Orben is well known for Yakuza involvement.

Daisuke Enomoto, Ex-Livedoor executive, was allegedly involved in the plot. Livedoor is one of the earliest Internet company in Japan, and was accused with securities fraud. Livedoor scandal was the biggest news in the history of the Japanese Internet industry.

See Also: (in English)

1. A Wikipedia article about Livedoor
2. Orben stock quote

Tags: Company, Japan, News by Shunichi Arai
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We are going to hold our first readers' meeting on 2/26 (Tue) night.

Asiajin Meeting Tokyo

The meeting will include 5-6 English presentations about 1. popular net services in Japan, or 2. their project/product. Those presentation will be in English by Japanese web entrepreneurs/developers, all of whom heavily use Japanese net services everyday at their office and home.

As it is "Asiajin" meeting, we are aiming at networking under inter-cultural/inter-language atomosphere by this meeting. We are expecting 10-15 non-Japanese Asiajin readers as audience.

At this point, we are asking presentation to several interesting persons, such like a successful blog service director, a huge student BBS founder, serial mashup-sites creator, etc.

Also, non-native-Japanese-speakers' Japanese presentation are welcome. If no slots are open we will be able to have yours at the 2nd meeting. If you are a perfect J/E bilingual or super linguist, you are supposed to help our meeting as a bilingual presentation mentor

Who should attend?

We are expecting foreighners in Tokyo who are interested in Web/IT and Japanese/English communication. For some presenters, this might be the first time English presentation in their lives. We expect your kind help to improve their English presentation skills and welcome practicing your Japanese in the discussion, too.

Timetable

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Power and WiFi are available for guest. The meeting room is kindly sponsered by Cybozu Labs so there is no fee required.

Please secure your seat by submitting following form.

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supplemental info for Japanese readers

* 基本的に聞き手には東京在住の外国人を募集しています。日本語が第一言語の方は英語でのプレゼンテーション必須です(他人作の日本語のサービス紹介等でも可。5分以上目安)。予定されるプレゼンテーションのテーマをコメントに書いてください。話者多数の場合は2回目にお願いする可能性があります。

Tags: Announcement, Asiajin Event, Japan by Akky Akimoto
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