Dan Takuma
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was a Japanese businessman who was Director-General of Mitsui
, one of the leading Japanese zaibatsu
(family conglomerates). He was a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and was married to the younger sister of statesman Kaneko Kentarō
.
Dan favored the cultivation of closer relations between Japan and the Western powers. In 1921, he led the Japanese Businessmen's Mission, in which a group of Japanese business leaders visited the United States, Great Britain, and France to discuss bilateral economic issues and to promote personal ties with businesspeople of those countries.
On March 5, 1932, Dan was assassinated by right-wing nationalist Goro Hishinuma as part of the League of Blood Incident
.
Dan's son was embryologist Dan Katsuma
, and his grandson was operatic composer Dan Ikuma
.
Mitsui
is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
, one of the leading Japanese zaibatsu
Zaibatsu
is a Japanese term referring to industrial and financial business conglomerates in the Empire of Japan, whose influence and size allowed for control over significant parts of the Japanese economy from the Meiji period until the end of World War II.-Terminology:...
(family conglomerates). He was a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
and was married to the younger sister of statesman Kaneko Kentarō
Kaneko Kentaro
was a statesman and diplomat in Meiji period Japan.- Early life :Kaneko was born into a samurai family of Fukuoka Domain . At the age of 9, he began his studies at Shuyukan...
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Dan favored the cultivation of closer relations between Japan and the Western powers. In 1921, he led the Japanese Businessmen's Mission, in which a group of Japanese business leaders visited the United States, Great Britain, and France to discuss bilateral economic issues and to promote personal ties with businesspeople of those countries.
On March 5, 1932, Dan was assassinated by right-wing nationalist Goro Hishinuma as part of the League of Blood Incident
League of Blood Incident
was a 1932 assassination plot in Japan in which extremists targeted wealthy businessmen and liberal politicians. The group chose twenty victims but succeeded in killing only two: former Finance Minister and head of the Rikken Minseito, Junnosuke Inoue, and Director-General of Mitsui Holding...
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Dan's son was embryologist Dan Katsuma
Katsuma Dan
was a Japanese embryologist and cell biologist. He was born in 1905, the youngest son of Baron Dan Takuma, president of the Mitsui Gomei Kaisha Corporation. Takuma Dan was educated in the United States, graduating from MIT in 1878...
, and his grandson was operatic composer Dan Ikuma
Ikuma Dan
was a Japanese composer.- Biography :Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1946...
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External links
Sources
- Masato Kimura, "The Contributions and Limitations of Japanese Business Diplomacy in the Interwar Period", The Suntory Center, London School of Economics, July 2002
- "Baron Takuma Dan" (obituary). The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
(London), 11 March 1932.