If it wasn't for Sachio Semmoto, the landscape of Japan's communications industry would look different today.
The 76-year-old business magnate has been linked to the three major communications giants — NTT Corp., KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp. — in his eventful career.
In short, Semmoto started out at NTT but quit there to co-found KDDI's predecessor and later founded another communications startup that he eventually sold to SoftBank.
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