Toru Takahashi (manager)
Toru Takahashi may refer to: *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese computer network researcher and businessman * Toru Takahashi (manager), CEO of Japan Post Holdings *, Japanese racing driver See also * See 高橋徹 on Japanese Wikipedia for a further list * Takahashi (other) * Toru (other) TORU or Toru may refer to: * TORU, spacecraft system * Toru (given name), Japanese male given name * Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Tõru Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western ...

Toru Takahashi (baseball)
is a former Japanese professional baseball pitcher who played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. Early life Born in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Takahashi attended Otsu Junior High School and Yokohama So-Gakukan High School. He was selected in the third-round of the 2004 draft by the (then named) Fukuoka Daiei Hawks. Professional career Takahashi spent seven years with the Hawks organization. In 2010, the sixth year of his professional career, he received a call-up to the club's first team and made his debut appearance on April 28, 2010 against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. He pitched the 9th innings and allowed one run. He made his second (and final) first-team appearance on May 10, 2010 against the Orix Buffaloes The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team formed as a result of the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment by the merger of the Orix BlueWave of Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the Osaka Kintetsu Buff ...
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Toru Takahashi (Internet)
Toru Takahashi (Japanese: 高橋徹 ''Takahashi Tōru''; January 1941 – 20 December 2022) was a Japanese computer network researcher and businessman. He was credited with contributing to the spread of the Internet into Japan and the rest of Asia in the 1990s and was a pivotal figure in the early commercial development of the Internet. For this reason, he was often called the "Father of the Internet" in Japan. Takahashi was born in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture in 1941. After graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Tohoku University in 1964, he worked as a contributing editor and writer. Since 1982, he has been involved in marketing of Videotex. Since 1986, he has worked on a high-speed LAN construction project using UNIX workstations and routers. Since 1987, he began researching the Internet and assumed office as a member of the Japan Unix Users Association. In 1993, he became secretary general at the time of establishing the Japan Internet Association and became its chairman ...
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Toru Takahashi (manager)
Toru Takahashi may refer to: *, Japanese baseball player *, Japanese computer network researcher and businessman * Toru Takahashi (manager), CEO of Japan Post Holdings *, Japanese racing driver See also * See 高橋徹 on Japanese Wikipedia for a further list * Takahashi (other) * Toru (other) TORU or Toru may refer to: * TORU, spacecraft system * Toru (given name), Japanese male given name * Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan *Tõru Tõru is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western ...

Japan Post Holdings
is a Japanese publicly traded Conglomerate (company), conglomerate headquartered in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is mainly engaged in postal and logistics business, financial window business, banking business and life insurance business. The company offers letters and goods transportation services, stamp sales, deposits, loans, and insurance products. On November 4, 2015, Japan Post Holding () was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as part of a "triple IPO" (initial public offering) with shares offered as well in Japan Post Bank () and Japan Post Insurance (). About 10% of the shares in each company were offered. In October 2021, the Japanese government abandoned its majority ownership of the company, while also still maintaining the most stock. Japan Post Holdings is also a constituent of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX Large70 indices. History The company was founded on 23 January 2006, although it was not until October 2007 that it took over the functions of J ...
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Toru Takahashi (racing Driver)
was a Japanese race car driver. Career In 1982, he was runner-up in Japanese Formula 3. The following year, he ran a dual campaign, racing in the Grand Champion Series and also stepping up to Japanese Formula 2 (now Super Formula). Takahashi was killed in the fourth and final round of the Grand Champion Series race at Fuji Speedway, Japan, in 1983, at the age of 23. Exiting the high-speed Last Corner, his flat-bottomed car spun, lifted and flew off the track, slamming top-first into a crowd fence. One unknown female spectator also died in the accident. A chicane was installed in the final turn, and Hermann Tilke demolished the section in 2003 as part of a total circuit reconstruction. Takahashi's final position in the 1983 Japanese Formula 2 season was fifth, with 49 points. Racing record Japanese Top Formula Championship results (key Key or The Key may refer to: Common meanings * Key (cryptography), a piece of information that controls the operation of a cryptograp ...
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Takahashi (other)
Takahashi is a Japanese surname. Takahashi may also refer to: Geographical locations * Takahashi, Okayama (written 高梁), a city in Okayama prefecture, Japan * Takahashi River, a river in Japan See also * Ward-Takahashi identities, a feature of quantum mechanics *The Takahashi correlation is an expression used in mass transfer equations for chemical engineering that corrects for high pressure in calculating diffusion coefficients between two molecules * Takahashi method, a presentation style pioneered by Masayoshi Takahashi * Takahashi Trading Company (1945–2019) Japanese imported home goods business, headquartered in San Francisco, California * Takahashi Seisakusho, manufacturer of astronomical telescopes Other uses * Gaoqiao (other), the Chinese equivalent {{disambiguation ...
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