Yoshisuke Aikawa

Aikawa Yoshisuke, Ayukawa Ayukawa Yoshisuke or Gisuke (Jap. each鲇 川 义 介, born November 6, 1880 in Ouchi (now Yamaguchi ), Yamaguchi Prefecture, † February 13, 1967 ) was a Japanese entrepreneur and politician. He was founder and first president of the car manufacturer Nissan.

Life

Aikawa was born in 1880 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, now located in his birthplace, the city of Yamaguchi. He studied at the Tokyo Imperial University and after graduating worked for Shibaura Seisakusho ( Shibaura Engineering Works engl. ), a forerunner of today's Toshiba. Then he decided to travel to the United States in order to learn the technique of malleable, as these in Japan was inadequate in his opinion.

With the help of the Trade Minister Inoue Kaoru, he founded in 1910 the foundry Tobata Imono ( " Tobata casting commodity," engl. Tobata Casting) and took over in 1928, the company Kuhara Kōgyō (English Kuhara Mining). To this end, he founded a holding company named Nihon Sangyo, with the abbreviation Nissan (日 产) was listed on the stock market. While a favorable phase in the stock market, the holding company bought a majority share in 1931 to dozens of companies and there was the Nissan zaibatsu. Among the companies acquired also the DAT JIDOSHA Seizo (English DAT Automobile Manufacturing), from 1933 the car manufacturer Nissan JIDOSHA ( engl. Nissan Motor ) was emerged. Aikawa was also the first company president of Nissan.

In 1937, Aikawa traveled in the state of Manchukuo, to where the line of Manshu Jukogyo Kaihatsu KK (English Manchurian Industrial Development Co.) to take over and thus to monitor the country's economy. But he was still president of Nissan. He was forced in 1942 to resign from his post by the Kwantung Army. From 1943 to 1945 he was a member of Kizokuin, the manor house of the Japanese Imperial Diet. He then returned to Japan and was arrested after the surrender of the American occupation forces as a war criminal. He was jailed for 21 months in Sugamo Prison, but in the end he was charged only as a war profiteer. During his imprisonment, the Nissan zaibatsu was dissolved and Aikawa wore after his release in August 1947 to the reconstruction of Japan, by buying up a bank and loans to small businesses spent.

1953 Aikawa was chosen over the nationwide constituency in the Upper House of the Japanese Parliament. He died in 1967 of a gall bladder infection.

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• Yoshisuke Aikawa at findagrave.com (English)
• Yoshisuke Aikawa at amazines.com (English)
• Dan Banks: Let's Meet Mr. K: A Biography and 100th Birthday Celebration (PDF, 7.3 MB)

• Business (automotive )
• Member of Kizokuin
• Member of Sangiin
• Japanese
• Born in 1880
• Died in 1967
• Man