Kunihiko Iwadare

Japanese businessman

In the history of enterprise, Kunihiko Iwadare is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Kunihiko Iwadare as Japanese businessman.

Kunihiko Iwadare was born at Kokura in 1857. His recorded nationality is Japan.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as engineer and entrepreneur.

His recorded affiliations include Ministry of Industry.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Japan shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Kunihiko Iwadare died in 1941, aged 84. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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