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Shōjirō Ishibashi (石橋 正二郎, Ishibashi Shōjirō, February 1, 1889 – September 11, 1976) was a Japanese businessman who founded the Bridgestone Corporation, the world's largest maker of tires, in 1931 in the city of Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan. the company was named after its founder: in the Japanese language, ishi means "stone" and ...
Learn about the life and achievements of Shojiro Ishibashi, the founder of Bridgestone and a pioneer of the Japanese tire industry. He also collected and shared art from Japan and around the world.
On March 1, 1931, in Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan, Shojiro Ishibashi founded Bridgestone, the company that is now one of the world’s largest tire and rubber companies. Translated literally, the name “Ishibashi” means “Stone Bridge,” which became the origin of Bridgestone’s name.
Dec 30, 2020 · Shojiro Ishibashi was the Bridgestone founder. He, like other entrepreneurs in the same era such as Sakichi Toyoda and Michio Suzuki, succeeded in domestic production of tires based on the technology accumulated in traditional industries.
- Masaatsu Takehara, Naoya Hasegawa
- 2020
The founder of the Ishibashi Foundation, Ishibashi Shojiro was born in 1889 in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture. At the age of 17, he took over the family tailoring business, growing it into a nationwide company by manufacturing jikatabi (split-toed heavy cloth work shoes with rubber soles), which he invented, in addition to rubber shoes.
As a seventeen year old, Shojiro Ishibashi took over his family clothing business in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture in 1906. Shojiro's ambitious dream was to dedicate his life to contributing to the nation of Japan above and beyond the work of his family business.
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Ishibashi Shojiro, the founder of the Ishibashi Foundation, was involved in cultural projects from a young age and left behind a number of achievements. Four cultural facilities built with Shojiro's support.
