is a Japanese businessman. He leads Yomiuri Shimbun

Yomiuri Shimbun

The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five national newspapers in Japan; the other four are the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi Shimbun, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, and the Sankei Shimbun...

, and he has a great influence on Japanese sports and Japanese politics. Informally he's nicknamed as Nabetsune, although he hates it.

Controversies

When Japan Professional Soccer League was established, he insisted that each football club should put each company's name on the football clubs. Usually, in Europe and the United States, each professional team or club put each city's name on the team.

When Japan Professional Baseball League was on the big crisis because one team collapsed and the League was going to became just one league system from two leagues system, the central League and the pacific League in 2005, he criticized the President of Japan Professional Baseball Players' Association, Atsuya Furuta

Atsuya Furuta

Atsuya Furuta is a Japanese former baseball player and player-manager for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows professional baseball club in the Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League...

 because of Furuta's struggles for maintaining two leagues ' system.

External links

• Shadow Shogun Steps Into Light, to Change Japan. The New York Times
  The New York Times
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  , February 11, 2006.
• Tsuneo Watanabe named Cannes 2007 Media Person of the year
• Baseball Reference Bullpen Article
• The Most Powerful Publisher You’ve Never Heard of.'The Economist
  The Economist
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  , November 14, 2007.