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 the mid to late 1800s, in Tokyo, Japan. He formed the industrial company of Arasaka, in 1916 which he built up to become one of the more successful wartime manufacturing companies. 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. Sometime during 1900 to 1905 he met his wife and soon mother to Saburo, Yui Arasaka.

His family life is largely unknown other than he had one son, Saburo, who took over the corporation after his death in 1960.

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.