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Ayukawa Gisuke, the man who created NISSAN!

Nov 5, 2021

"Without hard work, there would be no so-called "luck"! ”, time, luck, and fate, Mr. Ayukawa’s life trajectory is like the history of modern Japan. From a mortal enemy of the freedom camp to an ally of the democratic world, he also laid the foundation for Japan’s modern heavy industry.

"Without hard work, there would be no so-called "luck"! 』

Famous birthday boy on November 6th: Yosuke Ayukawa (1880-1967), founder and first president of Japan Industrial Group (Nissan)

A well-known political and business celebrity in modern Japan, Mr. Ayukawa, who was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo) with professional skills. He also learned iron smelting experience from senior steel industry veterans in the United States. With the strong support of relatives who hold high positions in the cabinet, he founded his own special forging steel factory. Through continuous expansion and mergers, and the vigorous development of the new industrial wave after the First World War, Japanese industry ushered in around 1928 AD. , Ayukawa's "Nissan" Group is already the dominant player...

In addition to Nissan, its business units also own and manage the current Hitachi, Sompo Japan (formerly Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance and Nissan Fire and Marine Insurance, etc.), Japan JX Holdings (combining the original New Nippon Mining and New Nippon Oil) and Nippon Fisheries, there are more than a hundred companies of various sizes, and Ayukawa is ranked among the top fifteen group (zaibatsu) presidents in Japan.

At the same time, he also carried the special entrepreneurial status of a representative of the Japanese Empire and was invited to Northeast China, where the "Manchukuo" was "ruled" by Emperor Puyi (of course, the one who gave the orders behind the scenes was the Japanese Kwantung Army) Within a year, he served as the first president of the "Manchu Heavy Industry Development Enterprise" and became one of the key figures in the history of Japan's economic and trade development in Manchuria!

However, the changes in life are always unpredictable...

As the death knell of colonial aggression sounded, the Empire of the Sun was defeated in World War II. The dream of the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" that was once so powerful in the past was shattered, and the Japanese mainland was even humiliated to accept the presence and supervision of the Allied forces. ..On Ayukawa's 65th birthday, November 6, 1945, at the "United Nations Supreme Commander General Headquarters" (United Nations Supreme Commander General Headquarters, Chinese: "Alliance in Japan") Under the implementation of the policy of comprehensive occupation of Japan's defeated countries conveyed by the Military General Headquarters (GHQ), together with the Nissan Group owned by Ayukawa, all the top fifteen chaebols in Japan at that time (including Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Yasuda etc.), all were forced to disband because of assisting the Japanese government during the war! All assets were immediately frozen and handed over to Commander-in-Chief General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) to supervise and handle the subsequent progress of pursuing the responsibility for war criminals.

Near the end of 1945, Ayukawa himself was "invited" to a detention center by the Allies for investigation as a suspect of a World War II war criminal. He stayed there for nearly 20 months. Fortunately, as a detailed investigation came out, he, who ran heavy industry, was determined by the United States to have nothing to do with launching the war, so he was released by the Allies without charge.

The dice of fate flipped again at this moment. Not long after Ayukawa was freed, the war between South Korea and North Korea broke out at the foot of the Changbai Mountain in the corner of Northeast Asia, which also started a fierce "Cold War" confrontation between the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union! After much deliberation, the White House decided to hold the Japanese business community high and put it down gently, hoping that by supporting and rebuilding Japan's post-war economy, Japan could become a democratic ally of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Republic of China in Asia. The closest comrade-in-arms, and further restrained the red forces of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union in the Far East, so the United States chose to conditionally allow these large corporate entities that had been disbanded in the past to operate in new forms...

Against such a complex time and space background, Mr. Ayukawa stepped forward for the second time and became the president of the "Nissan Small and Medium Enterprises Mutual Assistance Association", which was formed by various smaller Nissan-related companies after the dissolution of the past chaebol groups. Shigemitsu Nissan, He also returned to control the entire corporate body... He was already 72 years old at that time!

The following year, Ayukawa further served as the president of the Imperial Oil Company of Japan and the Japan Petroleum Resources Development Corporation. He also stood out in the national senatorial election and entered the National Assembly to speak for the company.

In 1956 AD, at the age of 76, Ayukawa was still full of energy and founded the "Japan Small and Medium Enterprises Political Alliance" (Zhongzhenglian), and even took over the position of its first president. In addition, he was also employed as the top economic adviser to the then Prime Minister Kishi Nobusuke (1896-1987).

In 1967 AD, a veteran corporate tycoon who witnessed Japan's modern political and economic development and experienced ups and downs in his life died of acute pneumonia at the age of 86.