abstract:() is a Japanese cement company, and is the biggest of its kind in Japan. It was formed in 1998 with the merger of Chichibu Onoda (itself a merger of Chichibu Cement and Onoda Cement) and Nihon Cement (formerly Asano Cement).
Graduating from the Kyushu Institute of Technology in 1960 with a degree in mining engineering, he discovered there was no work underground, so he joined what is now known as TaiheiyoCement .