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Derek TitteringtonBy Peter Harris

“It’s not that I’m deliberately trying to shock people all the time. I’m just doing things that are obvious to me. It’s because the public doesn’t understand my way of thinking that they get surprised.” These are the words of Livedoor’s infamous CEO Takafumi Horie, spoken during a CNN interview back in November 2005. Although there is a fair case to be made that compared to other Japanese scandal-tainted business people such as Murakami, Horie was no worse, clearly Japanese consumers need more protection from ‘surprises’ in the future.