was a Japanese

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

businessman, the chairman and founder of

Unicharm is a Japanese company that manufactures disposable hygiene products, household cleaning products, specializing in the manufacture of diapers for both babies and adult incontinence, feminine hygiene products and pet care products. The company h ...

Early life

Career

Personal life

Takahara was married with three children and lived in Tokyo. His son

Takahisa Takahara Takahisa Takahara (born 12 July 1961) is a Japanese businessman, the CEO of Unicharm. Takahisa Takahara was born in the family of Keiichiro Takahara, the founder of diaper making company Unicharm which releases the brands Moony and MamyPoko. I ...

is president and CEO of Unicharm. According to

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, Takahara had a net worth of $5.2 billion, at the time of his death. He received a Doctorate Honoris Causa in Humanities from Anaheim University in 2000.

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