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

In addition to his business activities, he, in 1984, own Inamori Foundation. He also donated the prestigious Kyoto Prize, which is awarded since 1985. In addition, he was even honored with several awards and accolades.

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

In January 2010, Kazuo Inamori took over 77 years old at the insistence of the Japanese government, the leadership of the economically ailing airline Japan Airlines to remediate this.

Works

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

There are also a number of other books by him.