Smart visit

There is no doubt that Elon Musk is now enjoying the status of media darling because wherever he goes international media follows and he makes headlines, as he is the X boss as well, the platform formerly known as Twitter that he bought last year. People start speculating about his private visit and a tsunami of gossip starts all over the world (“Elon Musk arrives in Japan for first visit since 2014,” Gulf Today website).

According to the report, Elon Musk was in Japan on Friday, prompting social media speculation on the purpose of his first known trip to the country in nine years. “Just arrived in amazing Japan,” the billionaire said late on Thursday on X. Users on X posted comments asking why Musk was in Japan, with some speculating he had come to see musician Grimes, with whom he has two children, perform at a music festival near Tokyo this weekend. Musk visited China in late May, meeting several government officials and declaring he would expand his business in the world’s largest market for electric vehicles.

Elon Musk is a smart and clever business magnate and investor. He knows the trick to promote his business as he had visited Japan for a ceremony marking his electric car-making company’s full-scale entry to the country’s market. He must be optimistic that his visit to Japan will promote his electric-car Tesla.

Junaid Akbar, By email