is a Japanese property developer, and the chairman of Mori Trust, a

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developer in Tokyo, Japan and an offshoot of

Mori Building is a Japanese family-owned property management firm. As of 2015 its president and CEO is Shingo Tsuji. Its headquarters are in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo. Mori Building has been managing office building leases s ...

, the company his father

Taikichiro Mori Taikichiro Mori (森泰吉郎, ''Mori Taikichirō'', 1 March 1904 – 30 January 1993) was the founder of Mori Building Company. ''Forbes'' ranked him as the richest man in the world during 1991-92, with a net worth of $15 billion in 1991 (app ...

founded in 1959.Japan's Visionary Real Estate Billionaire Minoru Mori Dies
/ref> As of July 2022, his net worth was estimated at US$3.0 billion. He attended

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endowmen ...

, graduating in 1960 and joining Yasuda Trust & Banking (now part of

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). He formally joined Mori Building as an employee in 1972. Following their father's death in 1993, he and his older brother

Minoru Mori was considered to be one of Japan's most powerful and influential building tycoons. He joined the real estate business of his father, Taikichiro Mori, after graduating from Tokyo University and was president and CEO of Mori Building, of which h ...

inherited the family business and in 1999 they split it after a falling-out. Akira headed Mori Trust, while his brother headed what was left of the

company until his death on March 8, 2012. Mori Trust owns and operates 67 buildings, manages 89 buildings, consisting of office and residential buildings, mainly in central Tokyo and other major Japanese cities. These include the

Tokyo Shiodome Building The is a building used for offices with a hotel on the top floors at Shiodome in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It has a height of 174 metres with 37 floors. The building was constructed from 2002 to 2005 and is owned by Mori Trust and Sumitomo Realty & ...

in a commercial district near

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, and about 30 hotels including the Conrad Tokyo. He expressed interest in expanding the company's Tokyo real estate portfolio in 2013 in the midst of economic reforms being enacted by Prime Minister

Shinzo Abe Shinzo Abe ( ; ja, 安倍晋三, Hepburn romanization, Hepburn: , ; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (Japan), President of the Lib ...

. Mori has selected his only daughter Miwako Date, who served as president of Mori Trust Hotels & Resorts, in 2016 to take over the Mori Trust business. Akira Mori is now assuming the role of Chairman of the Board of Mori Trust.

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