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Torakusu Yamaha

1851 - 1916

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Torakusu Yamaha (山葉寅楠, Yamaha Torakusu; 20 April 1851 – 8 August 1916) was a Japanese businessman and entrepreneur known as the founder of the Yamaha Corporation. Yamaha was the first Japanese manufacturer of the reed organ and established Nippon Gakki Co Ltd in Hamamatsu to produce organs and other musical instruments including pianos and harmonicas. Nippon Gakki was later renamed the Yamaha Corporation in his honor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Torakusu Yamaha is the 189th most popular businessperson (down from 86th in 2019), the 481st most popular biography from Japan (down from 150th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Japanese Businessperson.

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE

Among businesspeople, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 189 out of 847. Before him are Paul Elvstrøm, James Mayer de Rothschild, Sung Jae-gi, Lady Bird Johnson, Giovanni Battista Caproni, and Henry Ford II. After him are François-Henri Pinault, Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici, Fusajiro Yamauchi, Hetty Green, and Éleuthère Irénée du Pont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 23. Before him are Martinus Beijerinck, Friedrich von Wieser, Knut Wicksell, Jacobus Kapteyn, Charles Joseph Bonaparte, and Bernardino Machado. After him are Charles Dupuy, Guillaume Bigourdan, Arne Garborg, Alexander, Prince of Orange, Charles Dow, and Isabella, Princess of Asturias. Among people deceased in 1916, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 50. Before him are Théodule-Armand Ribot, Oskar Backlund, Hans Richter, Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, Vasily Surikov, and Thibaw Min. After him are Antonio Sant'Elia, Joseph Gallieni, Hetty Green, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Fredrik Idestam, and Ōyama Iwao.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 481 out of 6,245. Before him are Yoshihiko Noda (1957), Kiyoshi Tomizawa (1943), Tadahiko Ueda (1947), Emperor Hanazono (1297), Takeichi Nishi (1902), and Michihiro Ozawa (1932). After him are Hōjō Masako (1156), Norio Yoshimizu (1946), Ichiyō Higuchi (1872), Yukio Shimomura (1932), Kondō Isami (1834), and Tatsuya Nakadai (1932).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Japan

Among businesspeople born in Japan, Torakusu Yamaha ranks 6. Before him are Soichiro Honda (1906), Kiichiro Toyoda (1894), Akio Morita (1921), Masayoshi Son (1957), and Hiroshi Yamauchi (1927). After him are Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859), Iwasaki Yatarō (1835), Shibusawa Eiichi (1840), Eiji Toyoda (1913), Mineko Iwasaki (1949), and Tadashi Yanai (1949).

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