Eitaro Itoyama

Eitaro Itoyama (Japanese糸 山 英 太郎, Itoyama Eitaro; born June 4, 1942 in the prefecture of Tokyo) is a Japanese entrepreneur and politician of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Life

Itoyama studied at Nihon University. At the 1974 Sangiin - election he was elected for the Liberal Democratic Party in the then state-wide constituency into Sangiin, the upper house of the national parliament. Between 1983 and 1996 he served three terms of office as a deputy in Shūgiin for the three- mandate constituency Saitama 3, where he was elected in 1983, 1993 and 1986, no party affiliation for the LDP, 1990 deselected as LDP candidate.

As an author, he wrote several books on political and economic issues. He holds significant shares in the Japanese aircraft company Japan Airlines ( JAL). Itoyama is married and has two children.

He made ​​a fortune with golf courses. According to the American Forbes Magazine in 2005, he had a fortune of nearly $ 5 billion and was listed in The World's Billionaires. After a re-evaluation in April 2013 his wealth was estimated at 500 million.