Tokuji Hayakawa

Japanese businessman (1893-1980)

In the history of enterprise, Tokuji Hayakawa is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Tokuji Hayakawa as Japanese businessman (1893-1980).

Tokuji Hayakawa was born at Tokyo in 1893. His recorded nationality is Japan.

Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.

He worked as businessperson, inventor and entrepreneur.

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

Recognition followed: Order of the Sacred Treasure.

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

Tokuji Hayakawa died in 1980, aged 87. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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