In the history of enterprise, Momosuke Fukuzawa is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Momosuke Fukuzawa as Japanese businessman.
Momosuke Fukuzawa was born at Saitama Prefecture in 1868. His recorded nationality is Japan.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as businessperson, entrepreneur and politician.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class.
That the business was built from Japan shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Momosuke Fukuzawa died in 1938, aged 70. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
