孫正義氏の弟・泰蔵、シンガポールへ移住。日本の規制と教育システムに不満 2017-04-18
ソフトバンク孫正義氏の弟の泰蔵氏、東南アジアに１億ドル投資へ。
「日本は大き過ぎるし非常に鈍くて行動に結びつかない」
スマートフォン向けゲーム「パズル＆ドラゴンズ」で有名なガンホー・オンライン・エンターテイメントの創業者、孫泰蔵氏がシンガポールに移住した。ソフトバンクグループ創業者の孫正義氏の弟でもある同氏は17日、
日本の規制と教育システムへの不満が背景にあることを明かした。東南アジアに
５年以内に１億ドル（約109億円）投資の予定という。
孫氏は「日本政府には非常に強く働き掛けた。『創造的なアイデアをもたらすため実験・検証できるサンドボックスを規制の場に設けてはどうか』と提案したが、日本は大き過ぎるし非常に鈍くて行動に結びつかない。それがここシンガポールでは、政府や規制当局でさえ、イノベーションを尊ぶマインドがある」とＤＢＳグループ・ホールディングスがアレンジしたイベントで発言した。
シンガポールはインターネット利用率やオンラインのデータ処理依存度が高く、リー・シェンロン首相が2014年に着手した
「スマート国家」イニシアチブを後押ししてきた。この構想の下、政府や政府機関、企業は自動運転バスや交通管理、料金自動徴収の公共交通機関など、技術の活用によって社会のあり方を変えられないか探っている。
同国はまた、
犯罪が少なく、所得税率が低い上にキャピタルゲイン税がないため、フェイスブックの共同創業者エドゥアルド・サベリン氏を含め、富裕層を引き寄せている。
起業支援などを手掛けるミスルトウの代表も務める孫氏はシンガポールのセントーサ島に移住後、３カ月で永住権取得の見通しという。
３歳の息子がいる同氏の移住の一因には、日本の教育システムへの信頼喪失がある。戦後の大企業育成型のアプローチから抜け出せていないとして、起業家を育てるには「最悪」だと語った。孫氏は最近、東京近郊に子供の学びの場を開設したが、
シンガポールにも学校を開く方針だ。
原題：Billionaire Taizo Son Ditches Japan to Start Afresh in Singapore（抜粋） Business Standard 2017-04-18
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Taizo Son ditches Japan to start afresh in Singapore
Singapore may have just added a new tech billionaire, but it had to lure him from Japan first.
Taizo Son, who built his fortune on hit smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, has relocated to the city-state from Tokyo and plans to invest $100 million in Southeast Asia within five years. The younger brother of SoftBank Group Corp’s founder said in Singapore on Monday he’d become frustrated by regulation in Japan as well as the country’s education system.
“I tried very hard by lobbying the Japanese government: ‘Why don’t we have a regulatory sandbox to bring some innovative ideas?,”’ Son told the event arranged by the private bank of DBS Group Holdings. “But the country’s too big and very slow to move. But here, even the government, regulators are innovation-minded.”
Singapore’s high rate of internet use and a reliance on online data-processing has helped propel Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s Smart Nation initiative since it was launched in 2014. The programme has seen the government, agencies and companies look to use technology to change how things are done, from self-driving buses and traffic management to public transport fares that are charged automatically.
With little crime, low personal tax rates and no capital gains tax, the country has already drawn other billionaires, including Eduardo Saverin, a co-founder of Facebook.
Taizo Son founded gamemaker GungHo Online Entertainment Inc and is now chief executive officer of Mistletoe, a combination of early-stage venture firm, incubator and entrepreneur-in-residence program. His brother Masayoshi Son is chairman of SoftBank and is Japan’s second-richest man with a net worth of $12.9 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
After moving to the wealthy enclave of Sentosa, Taizo Son expects to receive his permanent residency within three months.
He was partly motivated by his three-year-old son after losing confidence in Japan’s education system, which he said has failed to adapt from the approach used to build the company into a postwar industrial giant.
The Japanese system is “extremely terrible” at creating entrepreneurs and Son said he intends to open a school in Singapore after recently opening a new school near Tokyo that encourages children to learn without teachers. Among his existing investments in the region is games and e-commerce operator Garena, the most valuable start-up in Southeast Asia.
At the event, Son laid out his vision for a futuristic city where large vehicles go underground, commuting is done on personal mobility devices and people can shower with water purification systems the size of a suitcase.
“I’m getting an inspiration from Venice because inside Venice there is no car,” he said. He added an aspiration to redesign cities away from the industrialised, car-centric model of the 20th century to one that is more “human-centric.”
