Running one of Japan's largest electronics firms, Minoru Usui, president of Seiko Epson Corp.
Minoru Mori leaves behind his wife and 2 children, as well as brother Akira and family.
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Co-founder Minoru Mori is behind some of the city's tallest developments, like Roppongi Hills and ARK Hills.
When Taikchiro died in 1993, Minoru and Akira inherited the vast real estate empire he had built over three decades.
FORBES: Japan's Visionary Real Estate Billionaire Minoru Mori Dies
Its president, Minoru (Ben) Makihara, London-born, Harvard-educated, has responded by trying to get into everything from energy pipelines to satellite broadcasting.
Aaron Swirsky, one of the architects who helped Minoru Yamasaki design the building, said the 1993 attack proved the design was sound.
Among the many honors Minoru garnered in his lifetime was the Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Yuji, a former banker, has run Otsuka, a supplier of office copy machines and software, since his father, Minoru, stepped down in 2001.
Minoru was also an art aficionado who was creating buzz with his futuristic architecture exhibition at Mori Art Museum, which sits on the 53rd floor of his Mori Tower.
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Longtime Japanese billionaire Minoru Mori passed away last Thursday, March 8th, of heart failure at the age of 77, according to a statement from his Mori Building Company.
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Similarly, Ripplewood managed to recruit several senior Japanese to its board, including Minoru Makihara, then chairman of Mitsubishi Corporation, the trading and investment firm that epitomises the Japanese establishment.
What really impressed Sasaki was that when he visited Seattle, he was chauffeured to a dinner in a Mercedes personally driven by Minoru Arakawa, Nintendo of America president and Yamauchi's son-in-law.
"This naturally-occurring cholesterol offers a very specific target for the design of safer drugs that could treat stomach ulcers and, long-term, prevent stomach cancer linked with H.pylori, " said Dr Minoru Fukuda, who led the study.
Minoru kept the company name and focused on building grand office towers surrounded by shops, condos, parks and art galleries such as Roppongi Hills, meant to create the feel of a hilly community in flat Tokyo.
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On a worldwide trip in December, Alwaleed's itinerary included a chat with Japanese real estate mogul Minoru Mori in Tokyo, a visit to Daewoo Chairman Kim Woo-Choong in Seoul, a lunch with Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Bin Mohamad in Kuala Lumpur and tea with the then prime minister of India, Inder Kumar Gujral, in New Delhi.
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