THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
August 31, 2022 at 18:24 JST
Kazuo Inamori, honorary chairman of Kyocera Corp., is surrounded by reporters after Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama asked him to rebuild bankrupt Japan Airlines Corp. in 2010. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Leaders in Japanese business and political circles are grieving the loss of Kazuo Inamori, founder of Kyocera Corp. and KDDI Corp., long revered as a charismatic corporate leader and backer of a two-party system allowing regime change. [Read More]
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