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biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Kazuo Inamori <br /> 稲盛和夫</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Kazuo_Inamori_2011_Heritage_Day_HD2011-71.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Kazuo_Inamori_2011_Heritage_Day_HD2011-71.JPG/220px-Kazuo_Inamori_2011_Heritage_Day_HD2011-71.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Kazuo_Inamori_2011_Heritage_Day_HD2011-71.JPG/330px-Kazuo_Inamori_2011_Heritage_Day_HD2011-71.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Kazuo_Inamori_2011_Heritage_Day_HD2011-71.JPG/440px-Kazuo_Inamori_2011_Heritage_Day_HD2011-71.JPG 2x" data-file-width="667" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Inamori in 2011</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1932-01-21</span>)</span>21 January 1932<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Kagoshima" title="Kagoshima">Kagoshima</a>, <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" title="Empire of Japan">Japan</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">24 August 2022<span style="display:none">(2022-08-24)</span> (aged 90)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Kyoto" title="Kyoto">Kyoto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Prefecture" title="Kyoto Prefecture">Kyoto Prefecture</a>, Japan</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">Japanese</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kagoshima_University" title="Kagoshima University">Kagoshima University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Othmer_Gold_Medal" title="Othmer Gold Medal">Othmer Gold Medal</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category">Engineering, Chemistry, Philanthropy, Management, Zen Buddhism</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width: 220px; clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5FRqyMEQUA"><i>Kazuo Inamori: A Conversation on Business Innovation and Philosophy</i> (with English translation audio) </a>, <a href="/wiki/UC_Berkeley" class="mw-redirect" title="UC Berkeley">UC Berkeley</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:INAMORI_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/INAMORI_Center.jpg/220px-INAMORI_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/INAMORI_Center.jpg/330px-INAMORI_Center.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/INAMORI_Center.jpg/440px-INAMORI_Center.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1946" data-file-height="1421" /></a><figcaption>The Inamori Center on Kyushu University Ito campus</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kazuo_Inamori.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Kazuo_Inamori.jpg/220px-Kazuo_Inamori.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Kazuo_Inamori.jpg/330px-Kazuo_Inamori.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/Kazuo_Inamori.jpg/440px-Kazuo_Inamori.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Kazuo Inamori (right) at the Crowne Plaza Cabana, in <a href="/wiki/Palo_Alto,_CA" class="mw-redirect" title="Palo Alto, CA">Palo Alto, CA</a></figcaption></figure> <p><b>Kazuo Inamori</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">KBE</a></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">稲盛和夫</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Inamori Kazuo</i></span>, 30 January 1932<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – 24 August 2022)</span> was a Japanese philanthropist, entrepreneur, Zen Buddhist priest, and the founder of <a href="/wiki/Kyocera" title="Kyocera">Kyocera</a> and <a href="/wiki/KDDI" title="KDDI">KDDI</a>. He was the chairman of <a href="/wiki/Japan_Airlines" title="Japan Airlines">Japan Airlines</a>. </p><p>Inamori was elected as a member into the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Engineering" title="National Academy of Engineering">National Academy of Engineering</a> in 2000 for innovation in ceramic materials and <a href="/wiki/Solar_cell" title="Solar cell">solar cell</a> development/manufacturing, entrepreneurship of advanced technologies, and for being a role model for relating science to society. </p><p>In 2011, he received the <a href="/wiki/Othmer_Gold_Medal" title="Othmer Gold Medal">Othmer Gold Medal</a> for outstanding contributions to progress in science and chemistry.<sup id="cite_ref-OthmerMedal_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OthmerMedal-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Othmer_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Othmer-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuo_Inamori&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kazuo Inamori was born 30 January 1932<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Kagoshima" title="Kagoshima">Kagoshima</a>, on the island of <a href="/wiki/Kyushu" title="Kyushu">Kyushu</a> in Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inamori graduated from <a href="/wiki/Kagoshima_University" title="Kagoshima University">Kagoshima University</a> in 1955 with a Bachelor of Science degree in applied <a href="/wiki/Chemistry" title="Chemistry">chemistry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OthmerMedal_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OthmerMedal-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He became a researcher at Shofu Industries in Kyoto, Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There he was important in several developments, developing <a href="/wiki/Fosterite" class="mw-redirect" title="Fosterite">fosterite</a> as an insulator for high frequency radio waves; using fosterite for the mass production of high frequency insulator components; and developing an electric tunnel kiln for use in <a href="/wiki/Sintering" title="Sintering">sintering</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1959, Inamori and several other colleagues established Kyoto Ceramic, later known as <a href="/wiki/Kyocera" title="Kyocera">Kyocera</a>. The company manufactured high-frequency insulator components for television picture tubes for Matsushita Electronics Industries (later <a href="/wiki/Panasonic" title="Panasonic">Panasonic</a>) in Japan, and silicon transistor headers for <a href="/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor" title="Fairchild Semiconductor">Fairchild Semiconductor</a> and ceramic substrates for <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a> in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Kyocera, Inamori implemented his <a href="/wiki/Amoeba_Management" title="Amoeba Management">Amoeba Management</a> system.<sup id="cite_ref-Amoeba_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amoeba-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After deregulation of Japan’s telecommunications industry in 1984, Inamori founded Daini Denden (DDI) Corporation. DDI later entered the cell phone business, merging with KDD (Kokusai Denshin Denwa) and IDO (Nippon Idou Tsushin Corporation) in 2000 to form <a href="/wiki/KDDI" title="KDDI">KDDI</a>, which has grown to become Japan's second-largest telecommunication services provider.<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 1997, Inamori took the name Daiwa and became a lay priest at Enpukuji Temple in Kyoto.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, at the age of 77, the Japanese government asked him to come out of retirement to help save the national airline, Japan Airlines (JAL). Inamori became the president of <a href="/wiki/Japan_Airlines" title="Japan Airlines">Japan Airlines</a> when it entered bankruptcy protection on 19 January 2010, and led the air carrier through its restructuring, eventually allowing the company to re-list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in November 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Inamori has been an International Advisor of <a href="/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs">Goldman Sachs Group, Inc</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Businessweek_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Businessweek-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuo_Inamori&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Philanthropy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Inamori, who was a <a href="/wiki/Zen_Buddhist" class="mw-redirect" title="Zen Buddhist">Zen Buddhist</a> priest,<sup id="cite_ref-CWRU_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CWRU-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> established the <a href="/wiki/Inamori_Foundation" title="Inamori Foundation">Inamori Foundation</a> in 1984, which awards the annual <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Prize" title="Kyoto Prize">Kyoto Prize</a> to honor those who have made "extraordinary contributions to science, civilization, and the spirituality of humankind."<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://engineering.alfred.edu/">the Alfred University School of Engineering</a> (Alfred, NY) was renamed in honor of Dr. Inamori. He endowed the Inamori Scholarship fund in 1996, doubling the fund in 2004. In Dr. Inamori's honor, the Kyocera Corporation has given a $10 million endowment to enable expansion of the Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering's research faculty. </p><p>In 2005, Inamori helped to establish the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at <a href="/wiki/Case_Western_Reserve_University" title="Case Western Reserve University">Case Western Reserve University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Cleveland,_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleveland, Ohio">Cleveland, Ohio</a>), with a gift of $10 million. The center awards the <a href="/wiki/Inamori_Ethics_Prize" title="Inamori Ethics Prize">Inamori Ethics Prize</a> to those who serve as examples of ethical leadership and make significant contributions to the betterment of global society.<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CWRU_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CWRU-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuo_Inamori&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Inamori has received many awards and honors, including: </p> <ul><li>Honorary Doctorate from Kagoshima University, 1999<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Doctor of Science from Alfred University, 1988</li> <li>Honorary Doctorate from Kyushu University, 2006<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Doctorate from Kyoto Institute of Technology, 2010<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>International Citizens Award, Japan America Society of Southern California, 2011<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Doctorate of Science, San Diego State University<sup id="cite_ref-OralHistory_5-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OralHistory-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Othmer_Gold_Medal" title="Othmer Gold Medal">Othmer Gold Medal</a>, 2011<sup id="cite_ref-OthmerMedal_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OthmerMedal-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Knight Commander of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">Order of the British Empire</a>, 2019<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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Entrepreneur</i> (McGraw-Hill, 1995, ISBN 9780070317840)</li> <li>Kazuo Inamori, <i>Amoeba Management: The Dynamic Management System for Rapid Market Response</i> (CRC Press, 2012, ISBN 9781466578913)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuo_Inamori&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1259569809">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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