Taikichiro Mori (森泰吉郎, ''Mori Taikichirō'', 1 March 1904 – 30 January 1993) was the founder of

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'' ranked him as the richest man in the world during 1991-92, with a net worth of $15 billion in 1991 (approximately equivalent to $ in today's value). His sons, Minoru and Akira, headed Mori Building and the

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, respectively, and his granddaughter Miwako Date now runs the Mori Trust in her father's place.

Biography

Mori graduated from the Tokyo College of Commerce (now

Hitotsubashi University is a national university located in Tokyo, Japan. It has campuses in Kunitachi, Kodaira, and Chiyoda. One of the top 9 Designated National University in Japan, Hitotsubashi is a relatively small institution specialized solely in social sciences ...

) in 1928. He was appointed Professor at Kyoto Sericulture Technical High School (now

Kyoto Institute of Technology Kyoto Institute of Technology (京都工芸繊維大学, Kyōto Kōgei Sen'i Daigaku) in Kyoto, Japan is a Japanese national university established in 1949. The Institute's history extends back to two schools, Kyoto Craft High School (established i ...

) in 1932, and Yokohama Commercial School (now

Yokohama City University is a public university, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2013, YCU has two faculties with a total of around 4,850 students, 111 of whom are foreign. YCU also has four campuses (Kanazawa-Hakkei, Fukuura, Maioka and Tsurumi) and two ...

) in 1946 where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce from 1954 to 1959.【時代のリーダー】森泰吉郎・森ビル社長, 日経ビジネスオンライン
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. After retiring from the University in 1959, he became the president of the Company.

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20th-century Japanese businesspeople Japanese business theorists Academic staff of Yokohama City University Hitotsubashi University alumni 1904 births 1993 deaths Businesspeople from Tokyo 20th-century Japanese economists Mori Building {{Japan-business-bio-stub