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My Take
There are railroad executives, and then there's Yoshiyuki Kasai — the man who made the bullet train his life's work and then decided that wasn't ambitious enough. He spent decades steering JR Central, the custodian of the Tokaido Shinkansen, arguably the most important railway corridor on the planet, and ran it with the kind of relentless conviction that tends to make people either deeply admire you or find you exhausting to negotiate with. But the maglev project — the Linear Chuo Shinkansen — that was his real obsession, and it says everything about the man that he committed the company to something that won't be finished until after he was gone. Tokyo University educated, Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun awarded, and completely uninterested in half-measures. A builder's builder from Hyogo who thought in decades, not quarters.
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Overview
Yoshiyuki Kasai (October 20, 1940 – May 25, 2022) was a Japanese business executive born in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture. He was educated at Tokyo Metropolitan Nishi High School and graduated from the University of Tokyo. In 2014 he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, one of Japan's highest state honors, in recognition of his contributions to business and the economy.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Yoshiyuki Kasai
- Name (Japanese)
- 葛西敬之
- Reading
- かさい よしゆき
- Born
- October 20, 1940 – May 25, 2022
- Origin
- Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
- Occupation
- Businessman / Corporate Executive / Professor / Economist
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Dragon
2. Background
- High school
- Tokyo Metropolitan Nishi High School
- University
- University of Tokyo
Awards & achievements
- 2014 — Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun
3. Links
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%91%9B%E8%A5%BF%E6%95%AC%E4%B9%8B
- Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11620990
4. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
Frequently asked questions
When was Yoshiyuki Kasai born?
Yoshiyuki Kasai was born on October 20, 1940.
When did Yoshiyuki Kasai die?
Yoshiyuki Kasai died on May 25, 2022, aged 81.
Where was Yoshiyuki Kasai from?
Yoshiyuki Kasai was from Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan.
What did Yoshiyuki Kasai do?
Yoshiyuki Kasai worked as Businessman, Corporate Executive, Professor, Economist.
Where did Yoshiyuki Kasai study?
Yoshiyuki Kasai attended University of Tokyo.
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