{{Short description|Japanese corporate executive}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}}
{{Infobox person | name = Kizo Yasui<br />安居 喜造 | image = | caption = Kizo Yasui | birth_date = {{Birth date|1899|12|02}} | birth_place = Hikone, Japan | death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|09|30|1899|12|02}} | death_place = Tokyo, Japan | education = Bachelor of Commerce | alma_mater = Hitotsubashi University | party = | occupation = • Vice-president of Mitsui Bank<br />• president of Mitsui Petrochemicals Industries (now, Mitsui Chemicals)<br />• Chair of the board of directors of Toray Industries<br />• vice-chairman of Nihon Keidanren (Japan Business Federation)<br />• the 4th chair of audit committee of Japanese National Railways<br />• general manager of Tokyo Metropolis of Ise Shrine Revered Board | years_active = }}
{{Nihongo|'''Kizo Yasui'''|安居 喜造|Yasui Kizō|December 2, 1899 – September 30, 1983}} was a Japanese corporate executive.<ref name="kotobank.jp">{{cite web |url=http://kotobank.jp/word/安居%20喜造-1657118 |title=安居 喜造}}</ref> 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 (Japan Business Federation), chairman of Japan Chemical Fibers Association and others.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nytimes.com/1974/02/14/archives/oil-crisis-brings-a-diversification-japanese-plastics-concern.html|title=OIL CRISIS BRINGS A DIVERSIFICATION|first=Will|last=Weng|newspaper=The New York Times|date=February 14, 1974|publisher=|archive-date=July 3, 2020|access-date=December 27, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703125200/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/14/archives/oil-crisis-brings-a-diversification-japanese-plastics-concern.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="kotobank.jp"/> 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. The last Kizo Yasui, father of this Kizo Yasui, was nicknamed '''Kōshō Chōchō'''［Commercial College Town Mayor］because he was elected Town Mayor of Hikone Town against his will while he was in Tokyo to negotiate the establishment of '''Hikone Commercial College'''（now, the Faculty of Economics of Shiga University）and resigned his post of the Town Mayor of Hikone when he saw new-facility construction of Hikone Commercial College.<ref name="shiga-u.repo.nii.ac.jp">[https://shiga-u.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=7809&file_id=19&file_no=1&nc_session=sutt144dnoq5gmdql87oipob24 Y. Abe, ''Shiga Daigaku Keizai Keiei Kenkyū-sho Chōsa-Shiryō-shippō ⑨'' ［''Departmental Bulletin Paper ⑨ of The Institute for Economic and Business Research Shiga University''］ 351 THE HIKONE RONSO 159, 162–163 (2004)]</ref><ref name="yasui kizo kaisoroku">{{cite book|url=https://ndlonline.ndl.go.jp/#!/detail/R300000001-I023390522-00|title=yasui kizo kaisoroku|pages=333, 334, 399–411|language=ja|archive-date=March 18, 2019|access-date=December 27, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318012253/https://ndlonline.ndl.go.jp/#!/detail/R300000001-I023390522-00|url-status=live}}</ref> His older sister, Kinu, married into a distinguished family in Akasaka-juku (Nakasendō), the Yabashis that Emperor Shōwa officially visited in 1946.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ginet.or.jp/ogakicci/sankan/isan/13_index_msg.html|title=産業遺産・文化財の紹介 詳細：西美濃地域産業観光ガイド ～産業観光施設・企業、産業遺産・文化財の紹介～|website=www.ginet.or.jp|access-date=July 31, 2018|archive-date=June 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160627113440/http://www.ginet.or.jp/ogakicci/sankan/isan/13_index_msg.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fuwaiin.com/kofun/akasaka-ocyaya-yasiki/akasaka-ocyaya-yasiki.html |title=3・御茶屋屋敷.(矢橋家) |access-date=July 31, 2018 |archive-date=August 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808004112/http://fuwaiin.com/kofun/akasaka-ocyaya-yasiki/akasaka-ocyaya-yasiki.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://binzume.sakura.ne.jp/lac/070425akasaka.htm|title=美濃赤坂宿|website=binzume.sakura.ne.jp|access-date=July 30, 2018|archive-date=July 9, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709080526/http://binzume.sakura.ne.jp/lac/070425akasaka.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.jp/ikoi98/nakasenndou/minoji2.html|title=街道|website=www.geocities.jp|access-date=July 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011103904/http://www.geocities.jp/ikoi98/nakasenndou/minoji2.html|archive-date=October 11, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> Otohiko Hara (jp), formerly Otohiko Yabashi, is his nephew. Shinya Yabashi<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www2.city.ogaki.lg.jp/kouhou/16nen/0315/07.htm |title=12 persons including Shinya Yabashi who contributed to the promotion of education as the Chairman of Board Education and to the development of industries as the president of Yabashi Industries Co., Ltd. received the Awards for Distinguished Services from Ogaki City (March 15, 2004) |access-date=December 27, 2024 |archive-date=April 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401151238/https://www2.city.ogaki.lg.jp/kouhou/16nen/0315/07.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and Hideroku Hara (jp) are his grandnephews. Yasui graduated from Shiga First Junior High School (now, Shiga Prefectural Hikone Higashi High School) and from Tokyo College of Commerce (now, Hitotsubashi University) in 1926 under the old system of education. While in the College, he joined the seminar of Prof. Kin-no-suke Otsuka.<ref>1991/11/10, 日本経済新聞</ref><ref>「大塚先生とお別れする会」のご案内</ref>
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 (now, Mitsui Chemicals) in 1961,<ref name="kotobank.jp"/> vice-president of Tōyō Rayon (now, Toray Industries) 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 (Japan Business Federation), 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 (Japan), 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.<ref name="kotobank.jp"/>
He died in 1983 at the age of 83 of pneumonia. The chairman of the funeral ceremony of Kizo Yasui was Fumio Takagi<ref>[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2006/02/15/national/obituary-fumio-takagi/ Obituary: Fumio Takagi The Japan Times]</ref>（jp）, former Vice Minister of Ministry of Finance and former president of Japanese National Railways.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://ndlonline.ndl.go.jp/#!/detail/R300000001-I023390522-00|title=yasui kizo kaisoroku|pages=333, 334, 399–411|archive-date=March 18, 2019|access-date=December 27, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318012253/https://ndlonline.ndl.go.jp/#!/detail/R300000001-I023390522-00|url-status=live}}</ref>
== Kinship == *father – Kizo Yasui (entrepreneur from Hikone, Shiga in Meiji Era. He was nicknamed '''Kōshō Chōchō'''（Commercial College Town Mayor） because he was elected Town Mayor of Hikone Town against his will while he was in Tokyo to negotiate the establishment of Hikone Commercial College（now, the Faculty of Economics, Shiga University）and resigned his post of the Town Mayor of Hikone when he saw new-facility construction of Hikone Commercial College.<ref name="shiga-u.repo.nii.ac.jp"/>)<ref name="yasui kizo kaisoroku"/> *sister – Kinu Yabashi (née Yasui, married Jiro Yabashi, Audit & Supervisory board member of Juroku Bank (See also Tom and Jerry#Outside the United States to know Gifu-based Juroku Bank))<ref>{{in lang|ja}}[http://www.juroku.co.jp/open_akasaka.html Gifu-based Juroku Bank Akaska Branch【十六銀行 赤坂支店】] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908024357/https://www.juroku.co.jp/open_akasaka.html |date=September 8, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{in lang|ja}}[https://shashi.shibusawa.or.jp/details_nenpyo.php?sid=8800&query=&class=d=all&page=37 Jiro Yabashi was appointed to Audit & Supervisory Board Member of Juroku Bank, July 20, 1943, See p.37 of the chronological table] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181230080837/https://shashi.shibusawa.or.jp/details_nenpyo.php?sid=8800&query=&class=d=all&page=37 |date=December 30, 2018 }}</ref> *nephew – Otohiko Hara (jp) (Formerly Otohiko Yabashi. Former Chief executive officer of Unitika Trading. One of the first Japanese businesspersons who lead Nichibo (Unitika) to the first overseas expansion of Japanese corporations after World War II)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unitika.co.jp/company/archive/history/pdf/nichibo05.pdf |title=Nichibō (1955~1969), See p.29/p.58 |language=ja |access-date=December 27, 2024 |archive-date=November 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119195754/http://www.unitika.co.jp/company/archive/history/pdf/nichibo05.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> *grandnephew – Shinya Yabashi (President of Yabashi Industries, Chairman of Ogaki Municipal Board of Education)<ref>{{in lang|ja}}[http://www2.city.ogaki.lg.jp/kouhou/16nen/0315/07.htm 12 persons including Shinya Yabashi who contributed to the promotion of education as the Chairman of Board of Education and to the development of industries as the president of Yabashi Industries Co., Ltd. received the Awards for Distinguished Services from Ogaki City (March 15, 2004)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401151238/https://www2.city.ogaki.lg.jp/kouhou/16nen/0315/07.htm |date=April 1, 2019 }}</ref> *grandnephew – Hideroku Hara (jp) (Legal Scholar, Professor at Shiga University)<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://researchmap.jp/read0174035/?lang=english |title=Researchmap : Hideroku Hara |access-date=December 27, 2024 |archive-date=August 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820010813/https://researchmap.jp/read0174035/?lang=english |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://researchers.shiga-u.ac.jp/html/100002490_en.html |title=Shiga University : Hideroku Hara |access-date=December 27, 2024 |archive-date=April 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403035042/https://researchers.shiga-u.ac.jp/html/100002490_en.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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