Ryoei Saito

Japanese businessman (1916-1996)

In the history of enterprise, Ryoei Saito is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Ryoei Saito as Japanese businessman (1916-1996).

Ryoei Saito was born at Shizuoka Prefecture in 1916. His recorded nationality is Japan. He was educated at Nihon University and Waseda University.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as entrepreneur.

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.

Ryoei Saito died in 1996, aged 80. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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