Koichi Tsukamoto, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Koichi Tsukamoto

Japanese businessman

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1920

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1998

Profession: businessperson

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Koichi Tsukamoto (?? ??, Tsukamoto Koichi, September 17, 1920 – June 10, 1998) was a Japanese businessman, the founder of Wacoal, and the first President of Nippon Kaigi (1997-1998). He was from the former town of Gokasho, now part of Higashiomi, in Shiga Prefecture.
He enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Army in 1940 and fought in Battle of Imphal during the Burma Campaign of the Pacific War, aged only 19.
He was demobilized 3 years later at age 21. In 1968, at an event held by the Japanese industrialist Konosuke Matsushita to celebrate the hundred years anniversary of the Meiji Restoration, he met the composer Toshiro Mayuzumi.
He had a three decade friendship with him and attended his memorial on May 29, 1997.