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LISA KIM, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- At 3 p.m. on a hot Saturday in June, a woman walked alone into an office building in Otemachi, a Tokyo business district. Unlike most well-known public figures, she brought no entourage to her interview. A Nike baseball cap pulled over her intentionally mussed hair, and sporting an oversized T-shirt, baggy Levi's jeans and black platform Crocs, she came armed only with a cellphone.

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