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Seiji Tsutsumi was a Japanese businessman and philanthropist who founded the Saison Group, one of the largest retail and financial conglomerates in Japan. He was born on March 30, 1927 in Tokyo, Japan. He attended the University of Tokyo and graduated with a degree in economics in 1950. Tsutsumi was a successful businessman and entrepreneur, and was the chairman of the Saison Group from its founding in 1957 until his death in 2001. He was also the chairman of the Japan Business Federation from 1989 to 1991. Tsutsumi was a philanthropist and was involved in numerous charitable activities. He was the founder of the Seiji Tsutsumi Foundation, which provides grants to support education, culture, and the environment. He was also a major donor to the Tokyo National Museum and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Tsutsumi died on October 28, 2001 at the age of 74. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, by the Japanese government in 2002.

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Occupation Entrepreneur · writer · poet
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 30 March 1927
Birthday 30 March
Birthplace Tokyo, Japan
Date of death (2013-11-25) Tokyo, Japan
Died Place Tokyo, Japan
Nationality Japan

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Who Is Seiji Tsutsumi's Wife?

His wife is Motoko Yamaguchi (m. 1955-1964) Asako Mizuno (m. 1968)

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Parents Yasujirō Tsutsumi (father)
Wife Motoko Yamaguchi (m. 1955-1964) Asako Mizuno (m. 1968)
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Children 2

Seiji Tsutsumi Net Worth

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Source of Income Founder

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2013

Tsutsumi died of liver failure in Tokyo on November 25, 2013.

1955

While working as a political secretary to his father, Tsutsumi met Motoko Yamaguchi. The two married in 1955 and had a son, Kōji; however, the pair divorced around 1964. He later wed Asako Mizuno in Paris in 1968. Mizuno later gave birth to Tsutsumi's second son, Takao.

1951

After receiving his degree in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1951, he re-enrolled as a literature student and worked as a secretary to his father. He joined the Seibu Department Stores in 1954. Following the death of his father in 1964, he led the spin-off of its logistics business to form the Saison Group, which eventually included the Seibu department stores, Seiyu supermarkets, Wave (a music shop), Parco (shopping complex), and the Muji and Loft variety store chains. He resigned as head of Saison in 1991 following the collapse of the Japanese asset price bubble, but continued as head of the Saison Cultural Foundation, which he founded in 1987.

1927

Seiji Tsutsumi (堤 清二, Tsutsumi Seiji, March 30, 1927 − November 25, 2013) was a Japanese businessperson, author and poet, also known by the pen names Takashi Tsujii (辻井 喬, Tsujii Takashi) and Ikuo Yokose (横瀬 郁夫, Yokose Ikuo).

He was born in Tokyo in 1927. During his childhood, he lived with his mother Misao and half-sister Kuniko. Misao wrote traditional Japanese poetry, which was Tsutsumi's initial introduction to writing. He later took up the practice himself, writing waka by his teen years; however, he would not publish any of his work until his late 20s.