Minoru Makihara

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Minoru Makihara (Japanese: 槙原稔 Makihara Minoru; January 12, 1930 – December 13, 2020) was a Japanese business executive who was the chief executive (1992–1998) and chairman (1998–2004) of Mitsubishi Corporation. He was noted for steering the group through the turbulent economic times of the 1990s and for advocating strong US–Japan business relations, serving on many trade and cultural relations advocacy groups. Makihara was born in London on January 12, 1930, to Haruko and Satoru Makihara. His father was a Mitsubishi executive there, and his mother was a kindergarten teacher, librarian, and writer. The family moved back to Japan just before the Second World War, when tensions between Japan and the western countries were rising, and he attended Seikei Elementary School in Tokyo. His father died in 1942, when the ship that he had taken to the then-Japanese-occupied Philippines, as part of a business delegation, was attacked by an American submarine. In 1949, he went to the United States to study at a private boarding school, St Paul's School in New Hampshire, and then attended Harvard University from 1950, graduating with a bachelor's degree in government studies in 1954. During his time at Harvard, his roommate was Robert Monks, a shareholder activist who was noted to have forced Sears Holdings to sell most of its diversified business interests and focus on retailing. Many years later, Makihara would credit his association with Monks for some of his portfolio returns and return on equity-focused reforms that he would initiate at Mitsubishi during his tenure as its chief executive. Some of the other notable students in his graduating class included future senator Edward Kennedy, and author John Updike.