Yoshisuke Aikawa was a Japanese entrepreneur, businessman and politician, born on 6 November 1880 and died on 13 February 1967. He graduated in engineering from Tokyo Imperial University in 1903, studied malleable cast iron technology in the United States and founded the Tobata Foundry in 1909. In 1928 he became president of the Kuhara Mining Company and created the holding company Nihon Sangyo, or Nissan, building the Nissan zaibatsu, whose companies included Nissan Motors, Isuzu and Hitachi. He moved to Manchukuo in 1937 to lead industrial development there and returned to Japan in 1942. Arrested after the war and held in Sugamo Prison for 20 months, he was freed before trial, later served in the House of Councilors and led the Chuseiren federation of small and medium sized companies.
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Defining ContributionFounder and first president of the Nissan zaibatsu, a conglomerate that included Nissan Motors 1 Connections
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was a Japanese entrepreneur, businessman, and politician
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6 November 1880
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13 February 1967
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was a Japanese entrepreneur, businessman, and politician
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noteworthy as the founder and first president of the Nissan zaibatsu, one of Japan's most powerful business conglomerates around the time of the Second World War
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The companies included Nissan Motors, Isuzu, NEC Corporation
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