Successful Japanese communications entrepreneur sets sights on renewable energy race | The Japan Times
13 Nov 2018 1:59 AM GMT
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 lin
- 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.
- Semmoto says green energy is one of the next big things amid the growing mood to combat global warming, while he believes Japan is obliged to shift to renewable energy given the failure to avoid the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
- Now chairing Renova Inc., a Tokyo-based green energy company, the veteran entrepreneur says he aims to build the company into something as big as the regional power utilities, such as Tokyo Electric Power Co.
- In 1999, Semmoto dove into another technological trend when he founded eAccess Ltd. to facilitate the spread of broadband internet connections in Japan.
- EAccess started as a wholesaler of ADSL internet services but later launched a mobile phone carrier business known as eMobile, which became the fourth-largest carrier after NTT Docomo, KDDI and SoftBank.
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