Word: ishibashi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luck," sniffed canny Electrical Industry Wizard Konosuke Matsushita, 67, when Rubber Tycoon Shojiro Ishibashi, president of Bridgestone Tire Co., beat him out as Japan's top 1960 moneymaker. "I'll be back on top again." Good as his word, Matsushita piled up a personal income of $988,000 for 1961 (minus a tax bite of $660,000), to head the list for the sixth time in seven years. Rival Ishibashi, down on his luck, wound up seventh with a mere...
Newly names by taxmen as Japan's biggest income earner ($860,000) in 1960, Shojiro Ishibashi, 72, president of the Bridgestone Tire Co., insists that "money accumulates when one works to serve others. It won't if one simply tries to become rich." Ishibashi (his name means "stone bridge," which he reversed to get his firm's name) took over his father's underwear factory in 1910, has made it Japan's biggest rubber goods manufacturer by such aggressive and once radical tactics as pricing his products uniformly instead of by size, and wooing peasants...
...overthrow Yoshida only by entering into an alliance with the Socialists-even though his ultimate aim was to create an anti-Socialist force. Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama, who succeeded Yoshida, had suffered a stroke, and hung on for two trembling years before resigning. He was followed by Tanzan Ishibashi, who appointed Kishi his Foreign Minister and then fell ill in turn and resigned within 63 days. On Feb. 25, 1957, at the head of a combined Democratic-Liberal Party, Nobusuke Kishi became Prime Minister of Japan...