Dan Takuma

Japanese industrialist

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:: Sept. 7, 1858, Fukuoka, Chikuzen province, Japan

:: March 5, 1932, Tokyo

Dan Takumawas the manager of the giant Mitsui zaibatsu, the greatest of the family-owned combines in pre-World War II Japan. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an important member of Japan’s business elite, Dan was assassinated by right-wing nationalists who regarded him as a symbol of the evil power of high finance in government.