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	Japan Update October 11, 2019

	SoftBank's Son  'embarrassed' by  track record as Asia  rivals zoom by TOKYO -- Foreign companies  with the drive to succeed make SoftBank Group chief  Masayoshi Son green with envy.  "I am still far away from achieving results, so I'm embarrassed and flustered," Son said in a  wide-ranging interview. "There were times when  I was jealous of the size of  the American and Chinese markets, but now there are many companies from smaller economies  like Southeast Asia that  have the fire and are  growing rapidly," he said. "Japanese entrepreneurs, myself included, cannot make excuses."
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