Aikawa Yoshisuke

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Aikawa Yoshisuke

Aikawa Yoshisuke , Ayukawa Yoshisuke or Ayukawa Gisuke ( Japanese respectively 鮎 川 義 介 ; born November 6, 1880 in Ōuchi (today: Yamaguchi ), Yamaguchi Prefecture ; † February 13, 1967 ) was a Japanese businessman and politician. He was the founder and first president of the automobile manufacturer Nissan .

Life

Aikawa was in 1880 in Yamaguchi Prefecture born today is located at his birthplace, the city of Yamaguchi . He studied at the Imperial University of Tokyo and worked after graduation for Shibaura Seisakusho (English Shibaura Engineering Works ), a forerunner of today's Tōshiba . He then decided to travel to the United States to learn the technique of malleable cast iron , as this, in his opinion, was insufficient in Japan.

With the help of the Minister of Commerce Inoue Kaoru , he founded the foundry Tobata Imono ("Tobata Gussware", English Tobata Casting ) in 1910 and in 1928 took over the company Kuhara Kōgyō (English Kuhara Mining ). To do this, he founded a holding company called Nihon Sangyō , which was listed on the stock market with the abbreviation Nissan ( 日 産 ). During a favorable period on the stock exchange, the holding company bought majority shares in dozen of companies in 1931 and the Nissan Zaibatsu was created . Among the companies taken over was DAT Jidōsha Seizō (English DAT Automobile Manufacturing ), from which the automobile manufacturer Nissan Jidōsha (English Nissan Motor ) emerged in 1933 . Aikawa was also the first company president of Nissan.

In 1937 Aikawa traveled to Manchukuo State to take over the management of Manshū Jūkōgyō Kaihatsu KK (English Manchurian Industrial Development Co. ) and thus monitor the country's economy. But he also remained President of Nissan. He was forced to resign from his post in 1942 by the Kwantung Army . From 1943 to 1945 he was a member of the Kizokuin , the mansion of the Japanese Reichstag. He then returned to Japan and was arrested as a war criminal by the American occupation forces after the surrender . He was detained in Sugamo Prison for 21 months , but was ultimately only charged as a war profiteer. During his prison sentence, the Nissan-Zaibatsu was disbanded, and after his release in August 1947, Aikawa helped rebuild Japan by buying up a bank and issuing loans to small businesses.

In 1953 , Aikawa was elected to the upper house of the Japanese parliament through the nationwide constituency . He died in 1967 of a gallbladder infection .

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  1. ↑ 鮎 川 義 介 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved June 21, 2013 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 鮎 川 義 介 . In: デ ジ タ ル 大 辞 泉 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved June 21, 2013 (Japanese).
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Aikawa is the family name, Yoshisuke the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Aikawa, Yoshisuke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 鮎 川 義 介 (Japanese); Ayukawa Yoshisuke (alternative reading); Ayukawa Gisuke (alternative reading)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese entrepreneur and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Ōuchi (Yamaguchi) , Yamaguchi Prefecture
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1967