Okafuji Masahiro

I find Masahiro Okafuji genuinely fascinating in that quiet, relentless way. An Osaka kid born in 1949, University of Tokyo grad, the man who basically became the face of Itochu and ran one of Japan's big trading houses with a famously hands-on, no-nonsense grip. What gets me isn't the resume, it's the temperament I imagine behind it: that Osaka merchant blood, equal parts sharp with numbers and stubborn about getting up early and out-hustling everyone in the room. I picture someone who never coasted on prestige, who actually liked the fight of the deal. I don't know his private life and I won't pretend to, but a guy still calling the shots into his seventies after starting out in postwar Japan? That's not luck, that's grit. I tip my hat.

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Okafuji Masahiro is a Japanese businessman born on December 12, 1949, in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He is a graduate of the University of Tokyo. He is chairman and CEO of Itochu Corporation.

Name (English)

Okafuji Masahiro

Name (Japanese)

岡藤正広

Reading

おかふじ まさひろ

Born

December 12, 1949 (age 76)

Origin

Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Businessman

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

University

University of Tokyo

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A1%E8%97%A4%E6%AD%A3%E5%BA%83
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30927408

Tags

• From Osaka Prefecture
• Businessman

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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