Sasai Arasaka

Sasai Arasaka was the founder and former CEO of the Arasaka Corporation from 1915 to 1960. The end to his reign as CEO was due to his death, which then saw his only child Saburo Arasaka take reign of the corporation.

Biography
Sasai Arasaka was born in 1859 in Tokyo, Japan. Sasai was known for being a shrewd businessman in the Tokyo prefecture and had experience in Industrial companies. During the early 1900s he met his soon to be wife Yui and married her in 1905. His ambitions and beliefs led him to forming the industrial company of Arasaka which he built up to become one of the more successful wartime manufacturing companies in Imperial Japan. During war, Sasai took full advantage supplying the military with top of the line equipment. He foresaw the defeat of Japan and during this time, he gained considerable wealth and was smart enough to diversify his holdings around the world, to this end his company, and by extension his family, maintained their wealth in the years following World War 2. In 1919 Sasai and Yui Arasaka had their first and only child Saburo.

Sasai lived a long life where he saw much success, the Arasaka corporation grew and became one of Japan's biggest industrial manufactures and he managed to raise a stable family where his son could take over his legacy once he passed. After 41 years of being CEO of a major corporation, Sasai passed away at the age of 101 in 1960 and the reigns of his corporation were given to his son, Saburo, as well as the Arasaka family wealth. His wife Yui was left in the care of Saburo after his death, however three years later she also passed away at the age of 96 in 1963.

Trivia

 * Sasai Arasaka is based on a real lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army Arisaka Nariakira, who invented the Arisaka family of rifles, and is regarded as one of the leading arms designers in Japanese history, alongside Kijiro Nambu.