Flamboyant Japanese internet tycoon turned politician Takafumi Horie has said he will bring Arab news broadcaster Aljazeera to Japan, hoping to provide a greater variety of views to the public.
The 32-year-old entrepreneur on Monday said his firm, Livedoor, which offers a portal site much like Yahoo! along with other internet services, has signed a deal with Qatar-based Aljazeera to distribute its news online in Japanese.
Horie, an unsuccessful candidate in last month’s parliamentary election, wrote on his blog that he was trying to diversify Livedoor’s news content.
I think it’s good that Al-Jazeera’s news will be reaching more people in the world, giving them another view of the events that take place in the Arab world.
I’m especially looking forward to their English news channel that should be launched soon.
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Great piece of news.. INTERESTING and wonderful to know of how important and widely spread Al-Jazeera has become… Two questions though.. How did you come to know of this and do you know Japenese? Cause I certainly coudlnt check out Horie’s blog! 🙂
KC
Well, I got to know of it because Al-Jazeera put it up on their website:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2829E60A-2D4F-4694-A515-35188FC0F71B.htm
And I don’t understand a word of Japanese, anyway I thought it would be interesting to link to Horie’s blog for those who might 😉