4 years into the service in the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Remaining hopeful about the dream of becoming a fighter pilot, continuing to train while

I joined the Japan Air Self-Defense Force when I was 15, but after an accident crushed my dreams of becoming a fighter jet pilot, I

After retiring from the Self-Defense Force, I set my sight on passing the National Bar Examination. But before I even begun, another case of bad

I began door-to-door sales of encyclopedias as a way to make money to study for the National Bar Examination. This experience taught me the mental

In 1974, I started working at Shinyo-Shoji, a subsidiary of Taiyo Fishery Ltd. (present Maruha Nichiro Corporation) to pay for my tuition while studying for

I entered Japan Air Self-Defense Force at the age of 15. One of the things I learned while in service, was that “if I was

Independent at the age of 27, in 1979. I gradually expanded my business Tsukiji Market around 1985 Even though I was independent, that didn’t mean

Starting Food Production Overseas Tsukiji Market around 1985 A year after starting on my own, in 1980, I was trying out ideas on the foods

Starting Food Production Overseas Tsukiji Market around 1979 At the height of the bubble period in 1988, there was the Furusato Creation Project started by

In 1997 after the economic crash, which was accompanied by the back-stabbing of my main bank, I had to abandon 80 or so of my