Kenji Yukimura

Kenji Yukimura (雪村賢二) is the founder and owner of Kabushiki Gaisha ABS.

History as a businessman
In 1999, Kenji Yukimura arranged to have the Aso Broadcasting System and all of its operations centralised into one company. The station agreed, and ABS' other affiliates became partners with the new limited company, Kabushiki Gaisha ABS.

Later that year, he announced that ABS would appoint itself as a "cultural ambassador" for Japanese popular culture, and would reflect this by bringing popular Japanese television programmes to international markets via a dedicated international feed, which already existed when Kenji bought out ABS, but would be "entirely overhauled to show how we've evolved from the times past".

Kenji partnered with TV Asahi Corporation in 2005 to launch the Asahi Kokusai satellite channel, and again in 2013 to hold a series of annual events themed around the Let's Go! Anpanman anime series.

Outbursts
Kenji Yukimura is well-known for his extremely short temper. Due to this, he has lashed out on many people on at least 5 occasions.

The most notable of these include:
 * 2005: Reruns of the PaRappa The Rapper anime series were stripped from ABS television schedules after Kenji made many gestures of complaint towards the show. When asked to conduct an interview with ABS N24, he burst into tears and assaulted the newswoman that was interviewing him.2007 Kenji lashout news clipping.png
 * 2007: Kenji walked out of an interview in anger after Kyoto Animation staff dismissed his proposals for an animated TV series based on the Pajama Sam franchise. Said proposals were cancelled after the event.

Repercussions
A select few people claim that many other events involving violence, stress and anger at ABS and its associated entities could be directly linked to Kenji Yukimura's behaviour.

Some of these events include: None of these incidents appear to have hurt ABS' brand image, business or reputation.
 * A member of staff working for ABS' Hokkaido affiliate physically attacking a costumed performer dressed as Anpanman character Dokin-Chan on May 19th, 2013
 * An ABS workers' strike turning into a riot in 2015, and
 * A state of mass panic in ABS' Edinburgh annexe when the Paris bombings occurred later that year.