Kazuo Inamori

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Kazuo Inamori

Kazuo Inamori ( Japanese 稲 盛 和 夫 , Inamori Kazuo ; born January 30, 1932 in Kagoshima Prefecture , Japan ) is a Japanese entrepreneur and founder of Kyocera and KDDI .

Life

He completed a chemistry degree at Kagoshima University in 1955 as a Bachelor of Science. Around 1959, at the age of 27, he founded Kyōto Ceramic KK ( Kyoto Ceramic Co., Ltd .; now Kyocera ). The company became an international high-tech company with more than 60,000 employees. After the Japanese telecommunications market was deregulated in 1984, he founded Dai-ni den-den KK (DDI, now KDDI ), which soon became the second largest Japanese telecommunications company.

In addition to his business activities, he also set up his own Inamori Foundation in 1984. He also founded the renowned Kyoto Prize , which has been awarded since 1985. He was also honored with several prizes and awards, for example the 2011 Othmer Gold Medal .

After he resigned as chairman of Kyocera, he was ordained Zen Buddhism priest of Rinzai-shu . He received the priestly name Daiwa , which means "great harmony". However, he remained the driving force behind all business activities.

In January 2010, at the urging of the Japanese government, Kazuo Inamori took over the management of the economically troubled aviation company Japan Airlines , at the age of 77 , in order to rehabilitate it.

Works

  • Kazuo Inamori: Passion for success. Signum, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-85436-190-4 , 192 pages
  • Kazuo Inamori: For People and for Profit: A Business Philosophy for the 21st Century . Kodansha International, ISBN 978-4-7700-2030-7 , 160 pages

There are also a number of other books by him.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kazuo Inamori on japansociety.org; Retrieved August 29, 2010
  2. Japan Airlines: A management guru takes over the control stick . Handelsblatt online, January 14, 2010; Retrieved January 14, 2010.