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Shibuya Innovation Institute’s Saeko Seno speaks with Logistical CEO Shakhboz Khayrilloev at the Shibuya Startup Support co‑working space in Tokyo on June 22.

TOKYO -- Shakhboz Khayrilloev's AI startup has investors, employees and growing revenues. By most measures, the 25-year-old Uzbek entrepreneur is exactly the sort of business founder Japan says it wants to attract.