For an executive at one of 91AV原创 most famous companies, Justin Scarpone’s story of what led him here has little to do with business.
“I’ve been wrestling since I was 6, and in high school I was on a team that toured Japan,” says Scarpone, 56, who originally grew up in New Jersey. “That got me into Japan back in the mid-1980s. (Later on) I studied Japanese in college in New York, did a year in Kyoto and then just decided to work and be based here.”
After relocating to Japan permanently in 1991, Scarpone became one of the first three non-Japanese permanent employees of trading giant Itochu. After five years there, he moved on to a startup creating homepages for businesses in the dial-up days of the internet. He joined Disney in 2002, where he would remain for 17 years overseeing several divisions including the company’s games group, which released titles like the Kingdom Hearts series.
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