He himself has recently been opening plants in Slovakia and the Czech Republic and sounding the death-knell for a factory in Britain that closed its doors last month.
The 39-year-old war corespondent had filed copy on the discovery of a potentially dangerous chemicals factory just hours before her death.
Ito, whose family ran a miso (bean paste) factory following his father's early death when Ito was 12, has said he wasn't interested in architecture as a youth.
The death toll from the collapse of an eight-storey factory building near the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has passed 700, officials say.
No factory owner has faced charges in court for the death of a worker in Bangladesh despite several dozen fires, worker stampedes and other accidents reported in the country over the past decade.
The death toll continued to climb Tuesday from the April 24 collapse of the Bangladesh garment-factory building, rising to 705.
The death toll continued to climb Wednesday from the April 24 collapse of the Bangladesh garment-factory building, rising to 803, and the country's government forced 18 factories to shut down temporarily while they make safety improvements.
Colleagues of a Shropshire factory worker fatally stabbed outside a Wolverhampton nightclub say they are still "numbed by his death".
"I want the death penalty for the owner of the building, " said one marcher, 18-year-old garment factory worker Mongidul Islam Rana.
Factory fires, often caused by sparks hitting stored clothing and fabric, are the most common cause of death in Bangladesh's apparel industry.
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