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Takafumi Horie
He founded a company while a student at the University of Tokyo, took it public in the middle of the internet boom, and became the prodigy of his age by bidding for a baseball club and a broadcaster. On 23 January 2006 he was arrested for violating the Securities and Exchange Act, and the company he had built was delisted. This case reads the spacetime that overlapped on the day of his fall.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Takafumi Horie — Entrepreneur; former President and CEO of Livedoor
- Period analysed
- 1972–
- Three pillars
- Day 癸巳 / Month 庚戌 / Year 壬子
- Void branches
- 午未 (Horse–Sheep)
- Destiny area
- 0.14 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 14 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His destiny carries a structure that favours a conservative, steady way of life.
- In the decade from 1995, a rising phase brought founding, listing and acquisition.
- In 2004 and 2005, at the border between two decade cycles, the scale of his moves widened at once.
- In the decade from 2005, the value for parents fell further than at any other time in his life.
- On 23 January 2006, in a month when both guardian stems changed their nature, he was arrested.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- How did a student founder become the prodigy of his age?
- Why did he move on a baseball club and a broadcaster at once?
- Where was the structure that made him lose the company he built?
- What overlapped on 23 January 2006?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1996 | 丙子 | Apr — founds On the Edge |
| 2000 | 庚辰 | 6 Apr — listed on the TSE Mothers market |
| 2004 | 甲申 | Jun — announces a bid for the Kintetsu Buffaloes |
| 2005 | 乙酉 | 8 Feb — acquires a large stake in Nippon Broadcasting; 11 Sep — loses a general election race |
| 2006 | 乙酉 | 23 Jan — arrested for violating the Securities and Exchange Act |
| 2011 | 辛卯 | 26 Apr — prison sentence finalised; 20 Jun — imprisoned |
| 2013 | 癸巳 | 27 Mar — released on parole |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Composite numerical table
- Prodigy of the age
- The border between two cycles
- The four layers of 23 January 2006
- The collapse of fortune
- Informant karma and the voided storehouse star
- Shedding the skin
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii