was a Japanese businessman and the owner of The Yomiuri Group, the parent of

Yomiuri Shimbun The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. It is one of the five major newspapers in Japan; the other four are ''The Asahi Shimbun'', the ''Chunichi Shimbun'', the ''Ma ...

Holdings. He was the eldest son of its previous owner,

Matsutarō Shōriki was a Japanese media proprietor and politician. He was the owner of the ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', founder of the Yomiuri Giants and the Nippon Television Network Corporation. After a career as a police officer, Shoriki acquired the bankrupt ''Yomiu ...

. In 1942, he received his degree from the Faculty of Economics at

Keio University , abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university located in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally established as a school for Rangaku, Western studies in 1858 in Edo. It was granted university status in 1920, becomi ...

. Shōriki was also owner of the

Yomiuri Giants The are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. They h ...

baseball team from 1964 until 1996, again in succession to his father. He retained the title of "honorary owner" until his death in a hospital in Tokyo on 15 August 2011, aged 92.

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Yomiuri website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shoriki, Toru 1918 births 2011 deaths Keio University alumni Deaths from sepsis in Japan Yomiuri Giants Japanese businesspeople