Sasai Arasaka

Sasai Arasaka was the founder and former CEO of the Arasaka Corporation from 1916 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.

History
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. Sasai Arasaka 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 with where he saw much success, the Arasaka corporation grew and became one of Japan’s biggest industrial corporations and he managed raise a stable family where his son could take over his legacy once he's gone. 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 was given to his son, Saburo, as when as the Arasaka family wealth. His wife Yui was left in the care of Saburo after his death, however three years after she also passed away at the age of 96 in 1963.

Sasai's legacy is still felt in the in the halls of all regional offices and his business corporate mentality can be seen in his son.

Trivia

 * Sasai Arasaka is been rumored to be based on a real Lieutenant General of the Imperial Japanese Army Arisaka Nariakira, who invented of the Arisaka Rifle, is regarded as one of the leading arms designers in Japanese history, alongside Kijiro Nambu.