W Kazuo Inamori, a famous Japanese industrialist, is introduced as follows:
W Kazuo Inamori was born in Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from the Faculty of Engineering of Kagoshima University. He founded Kyoto Ceramics Co. at the age of 27, and the Second Telecommunications Company at the age of 52, which is the second largest telecommunications company in Japan after NTT, and both companies entered the Fortune 500 during his lifetime. (formerly known as DDI, now known as KDDI, and the second largest telecommunications company in Japan after NTT) at the age of 52, both of which entered the world's top 500 companies during his lifetime.
He suggests that leaders should be selected on the basis of virtue over talent, that is, those who are superior to others should have character first, courage second, and ability third. He pointed out that love is the torch that ignites passion for work. No matter what kind of work, as long as you do it with all your strength, you will have a great sense of achievement and self-confidence, and you will be motivated to challenge the next goal.
W Kazuo Inamori died of senility at the age of 90 at his home in Kyoto on August 24, 2022, at 8:25 a.m. A farewell ceremony for Kazuo Inamori was held at the National Kyoto Kokusai Hall in Kyoto City on November 28th.
Warao Inamori's contribution to China:
Inamori realized his first visit to China in 1975, and since then he had traveled to China several times and established a deep friendship with this wonderful country.In early 1985, for the sake of the Sino-Japanese friendship cause, a group of Chinese government dignitaries, headed by Mr. Zhang Jinfu, who was the state councilor at that time, visited Kyoto and Japan. A delegation from the Chinese government headed by Mr. Zhang Jinfu, then a state councilor, visited Kyocera.
At the symposium, Mr. Inamori introduced solar cells, a new type of energy that Kyocera was developing for the future, and expressed his intention to send a set of "Kyocera's solar power generation equipment" to China. Mr. Zhang Jinfu was very interested in this proposal, and soon afterward, he facilitated the launch of this project between Japan and China.
In addition, KYOCERA provided financial support to the "Japan-China Joint Academic Mission on the Yangtze River Civilization". In addition, the company has carried out a number of exchange activities in China, such as the "Chinese Youth Friendship Exchange Mission to Japan", and established the "Inamori Kyocera Scholarship Fund for Western China Development" in 2001. From the economic aspects of financial support to students living in the western region of China, both academic excellence, living in poverty.