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SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son speaks to the Nikkei Asian Review in Tokyo. (Photo by Kosaku Mimura)

TAKAFUMI HOTTA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- SoftBank Group announced on July 26 that it had agreed to raise at least $108 billion for a new investment fund. Yet throughout his interview with Nikkei at SoftBank's Tokyo headquarters, Masayoshi Son, SoftBank's founder and CEO, rarely relaxed his serious expression.

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