Kizo Yasui


Kizo Yasui was a Japanese corporate executive. He held the positions of the chairman of the board of directors of Toray Industries, vice-president of Mitsui Bank, president of Mitsui Petrochemicals Industries, vice-chairman of Nihon Keidanren, chairman of Japan Chemical Fibers Association and others. He was also general manager of Tokyo Metropolis of Ise Shrine Revered Board. He dedicated himself to reconstructing Japanese National Railways as the 4th chairman of audit committee thereof. He received Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1979.

Biography

Yasui was born in Hikone, Shiga. He carried on his father's name, Kizo. His older sister, Kinu, married into a distinguished family in Akasaka-juku, the Yabashis that Emperor Shōwa officially visited in 1946.. Otohiko Hara, formerly Otohiko Yabashi, is his nephew. Shinya Yabashi and Hideroku Hara are his grandnephews.
Yasui graduated from Shiga First Junior High School and from Tokyo College of Commerce in 1926 under the old system of education. While in the College, he joined the seminar of Prof. Kin-no-suke Otsuka.
He entered Mitsui Bank after graduation. He became managing director, senior managing director and vice-president of Mitsui Bank in 1959, president of Mitsui Petrochemicals Industries in 1961, vice-president of Tōyō Rayon in 1963, chairman of the board of directors of Toray Industries in 1971 and senior advisor to the board of directors of Toray Industries in 1977.
During this period, he successively held the positions of vice-chairman of Nihon Keidanren, chairman of Japan Chemical Fibers Association, general manager of Tokyo Metropolis of Ise Shrine Revered Board, member of the board of Japan Association of Corporate Executives, member of Tax Research Committee of Prime Minister's Office, member of National Language Council of Ministry of Education, Science and Culture and so on.
He received Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1979.
He died in 1983 at the age of 83 of pneumonia.
The chairman of the funeral ceremony of Kizo Yasui was Fumio Takagi（:jp:高木文雄|jp）, former Vice Minister of Ministry of Finance and former president of Japanese National Railways.

Kinship