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Place of Birth: Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
About Kazuo Wada
- Kazuo Wada (?? ??, Wada Kazuo, 1929 – 19 August 2019) was a Japanese businessman, the effective founder and chairman of the defunct multinational supermarket and department store chain Yaohan.
- He took over his parents' small grocery chain in the 1950s and spent the next four decades growing Yaohan into a global company with annual sales of 500 billion yen at its peak.
- However, Yaohan was unable to sustain its heavy loss and debt burden during the 1997 Asian financial crisis and declared bankruptcy.
- Almost penniless, Wada spent his later life running a consultancy for young Japanese entrepreneurs.
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