1. Soichiro Honda (1906)

Japanese Businessman

Japanese businessman who helped Honda Motor Co. become an internationally recognized brand.

2. Masaru Ibuka (1908)

Japanese Businessman

Japanese entrepreneur who co-founded the Sony Corporation. He and Akio Morita initially named their company the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation.

3. Eiji Toyoda (1913)

Japanese Businessman

Japanese industrialist who served as president of Toyota and helped bring it to profitability and global prominence. After many attempts, he was able to break into the American automobile market...

4. Akio Morita (1921)

Japanese Businessman

Japanese entrepreneur who co-founded the Sony Corporation and its predecessor, the Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation.

5. Tadashi Yanai (1949)

Japanese Businessman

Founder of Fast Retailing, at one point Asia's largest apparel firm. He married affordability with stylishness in his Uniqlo clothing line.

6. Kazuo Hirai (1960)

Japanese Businessman

Japanese businessman who became the President and CEO of the Sony Corporation in April 2012. He previously achieved enormous success with the company's gaming division, Sony Computer Entertainment America.

7. Kantaro Tomiyama (1954)

Japanese Businessman

Japanese business executive and CEO who is best recognized for being the President and CEO of the Japanese toy company Tomy Company, Ltd. He is also known for his work...

8. Ganari Takahashi (1958)

Japanese Businessman

Ganari Takahashi is an entrepreneur in the field of Japanese adult video. He founded Soft On Demand one of the largest adult aovie conglomerates in Japan.

9. Hiroshi Okuda (1932)

Japanese Businessman

Hiroshi Okuda was chairman of the Toyota Motor Corporation from 1999 to 2006. He became president of Toyota in 1995 and has worked at the corporation for 50 years....

10. Isao Matsuoka (1934)

Japanese Businessman

Isao Matsuoka Chairman Toho Co. Ltd.. A graduate of the prestigious Konan University Matsuoka serves as Chairman of the Toho Co. Ltd. a position he has held for 12 years...

11. Masataka Taketsuru (1894)

Japanese Businessman

Masataka Taketsuru founded Japan's whisky industry. He was born in 1894 in Takehara Hiroshima to a family that had owned a sake brewery since 1733.

12. Fujio Mitarai (1935)

Japanese Businessman

ujio Mitarai is the chairman of Canon. He studied Law at Chuo University and was President of Canon in the USA until 1989. Mitarai used a unique blend of eastern...

13. Akio Mimura (Unknow)

Japanese Businessman

Akio Mimura is a prominent Japanese businessman notable for his positions at the head of Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation and as Chairman of the Japan-Australia Business Cooperation Committee...

14. Sachio Semmoto (1942)

Japanese Businessman

Sachio Semmoto is the current Chairman and CEO of eAccess and eMobile a Japanese telecommunication company. Also Appointed as a director on March 24 2009 to TELECOM CORPORATION OF NEW...

15. Keizo Shibusawa (1896)

Japanese Businessman

Keizō Shibusawa was a Japanese businessman central banker and philanthropist. He was the 16th Governor of the Bank of Japan.

16. Makoto Kaneko (1975)

Japanese Businessman

Makoto Kaneko is the President CEO and Representative Director of Zuken Inc. a public listed multinational corporation in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. 　He also owns the exclusive golf club The...

17. Susumu Ojima (Unknow)

Japanese Businessman

Susumu Ojima is a Japanese entrepreneur who was a founder and chairman of Huser Co. Ltd.

18. Hiroyuki Nishimura (1976)

Japanese Businessman

Hiroyuki Nishimura is the founder and a former administrator of the most accessed Japanese message board site 2channel. Until February 2013 he held a position of Director at Niwango Inc....

19. Hideo Ohkubo (Unknow)

Japanese Businessman

Hideo Ohkubo is the founder chairman and president of Tokyo-based Forval Corporation.

20. Hisato Ichimada (1893)

Japanese Businessman

Hisato Ichimada was a Japanese businessman central banker and the 18th Governor of the Bank of Japan.

21. Reiko Okutani (1950)

Japanese Businessman

Reiko Okutani is a Japanese businesswoman founder and chief executive of the temporary personnel service company The R. She serves on the board of Culture Convenience Club Co. Ltd. A...

22. Takahashi Meijin (1959)

Japanese Businessman

Takahashi Meijin real name Toshiyuki Takahashi is a former executive of Hudson Soft.

23. Nozomu Sahashi (1951)

Japanese Businessman

Nozomu Sahashi is the founder of the now-defunct Nova Corporation previously the major eikaiwa provider in Japan. After graduating from high school Sahashi went to Paris to attend university...

24. Satoru Shibata (1962)

Japanese Businessman

Satoru Shibata is the current president of Nintendo of Europe. When Shigeru Ota left Nintendo of Europe Shibata was named his successor in August 2000. Shibata was formerly the president...

25. Tetsuo Shimada (1962)

Japanese Businessman

Tetsuo Shimada is Chairman of Shimada Corporation a management and investment consulting firm which focuses on football. Now an official advisor of INSEE Police United of Thai Premier League.

26. Tomoko Namba (1962)

Japanese Businessman

Tomoko Namba born April 21 1962 is a Japanese entrepreneur and the former CEO of DeNA Co. Ltd.. Namba founded DeNA in 1999. DeNA is one of the largest mobile...

27. Akio Toyoda (1956)

Japanese Businessman

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the 日本語 Wikipedia. Akio Toyoda is the president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation. He received his MBA from Babson College.

28. Kazuhiko Nishi (1956)

Japanese Businessman

Kazuhiko Nishi launched ASCII magazine. Gradually ASCII started to publish software solutions too. Later he become Bill Gates' friend and in charge of Microsoft's Far Eastern operations. In 1986 Kazuhiko...

29. Goryo Hamaguchi (1820)

Japanese Businessman

Goryo Hamaguchi was the seventh business owner of current Yamasa Corporation in Japan.

30. Masayoshi Son (1957)

Japanese Businessman

Masayoshi Son is a Japanese businessman and the founder and current chief executive officer of SoftBank the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile and current chairman of Sprint Corporation.

31. Mitsuomi Koizumi (1957)

Japanese Businessman

Mitsuomi Koizumi is the incumbent president of Japan Tobacco a Nikkei 225 company. He replaced Hiroshi Kimura as president in June 2012.

32. Shuhei Nakamoto (1957)

Japanese Businessman

Shuhei Nakamoto is the vice-president of Honda Racing Corporation.

33. Fusanosuke Kuhara (1869)

Japanese Businessman

usanosuke Kuhara was a businessman and politician of Japan. He was a syndicalist zaibatsu owner and mining industrialist. He was nephew to the Denzaburo Fujita and brother-in-law to mining leader...

34. Daisuke Enomoto (1971)

Japanese Businessman

Daisuke Enomoto is a Japanese businessman and former livedoor executive who hoped to become the fourth space tourist.

35. Yoshinori Ohkoso (Unknow)

Japanese Businessman

Yoshinori Ohkoso was a Japanese businessman and baseball team owner. Ohkoso was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009. Ohkoso founded the Nippon Meat Packers company...

36. Takafumi Horie (1972)

Japanese Businessman

Takafumi Horie is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded Livedoor a website design operation that grew into a popular internet portal. After being arrested on accusations of securities fraud in 2006...

37. Batara Eto (1979)

Japanese Businessman

Batara Eto formerly known as Batara Kesuma is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of mixi a Japanese social networking site. He was born 1979 in Medan Indonesia. He graduated...