Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa all worked on what is known as symmetry breaking.
Son, Sawada and Nambu have all profited by - or perhaps despite - bucking the system.
"Nambu has his desk at the center of this big space, " says Takenaka of Pasona's Tokyo headquarters.
There was earlier important work by Julian Schwinger, Philip Anderson, and Yoichiro Nambu (all previous Nobel Prize winners).
Economics professor Takenaka Heizo of Keio University praises Nambu for his vision and insight - and his down-to-earth style.
Dr Nambu, who was at the University of Chicago, provided the mathematical foundations for understanding the spontaneous breaking of symmetries in fundamental physics.
Nambu, 47, heads Japan's leading personnel agency - 10th largest in the world - with 280, 000 registered temporary workers serving over 37, 000 corporate clients.
The trio's views on where Japan should be headed are reflected in their respective fields: information technology (Son), service (Sawada) and human resources (Nambu).
Meet Japan's Three Musketeers: Son Masayoshi, Sawada Hideo and Nambu Yasuyuki.
"The government should deregulate the job sector and encourage market liquidity so that Japan can build a proper social infrastructure, " says Nambu, who adds that small- and home-office businesses should be promoted to give people a wider choice for their working styles.
Just as Sakamoto helped bring about a social revolution that set Japan on the road to modernization, Son, Sawada and Nambu are calling for another revolution - one that will replace what they believe is an inefficient, outdated business culture with a new paradigm that will prepare Japan for the next century.
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