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SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son speaks during the annual general shareholders meeting in Tokyo on June 20. (Photo by Wataru Ito)

MITSURU OBE and AKANE OKUTSU, Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son is intent on taking the group back to its roots as an investor in tech companies and vowed to more than double its value at its annual shareholders meeting.

"We want to return to our original mission and become a strategic holding company," he said at the meeting in Tokyo, adding that he was in the process of shifting focus from operating telecommunications businesses in Japan and the U.S.

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