Shibusawa Eiichi

Shibusawa Eiichi (Japanese渋 沢 栄 一, born March 16, 1840 in Chiaraijima, Hanzawa -gun, Musashi Province (now Fukaya, Saitama prefecture), † November 11, 1931 ) was a Japanese entrepreneur of the Meiji period, and the central figure of the economic reconstruction after the end of the seclusion of Japan.

Shibusawa founded the First National Bank of Japan, Ōji Seishi and around 500 other companies, earning him the nickname " father of Japanese capitalism " earned. In his ideas also founded in 1917, scientific research organization RIKEN is declining.

In 1867 he traveled with a Japanese delegation to the World Fair in Paris, where he met the European economic system for the first time.