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- Death Iwasaki died of stomach cancer on 7 February 1885, aged 50, and was succeeded as the head of the family business first by his brother, Iwasaki Yanosuke, and later his son, Hisaya.
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Death. Iwasaki died of stomach cancer on 7 February 1885, aged 50, and was succeeded as the head of the family business first by his brother, Iwasaki Yanosuke, and later his son, Hisaya. In 1903, Iwasaki's fourth daughter, Masako, married Baron Shidehara Kijūrō, the first Prime Minister of Japan after World War II. Popular culture.
Iwasaki Yatarō (born Jan. 9, 1835, Tosa province, Japan—died Feb. 7, 1885, Tokyo) was an industrial entrepreneur who founded the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, the second largest of the family-owned industrial-financial combines that dominated the economic life of Japan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Of petty samurai (warrior class) origin
On February 7, 1885, one of the first great industrialists to bring Japan from a backwater third world nation to a modern industrial giant died of stomach cancer. The founder of the giant Mitsubishi Company, Iwasaki Yataro left the company in the hands of his brother.
The serious injury of Yataro's father in a dispute with the village headman brought him home from Edo a year later. When the local magistrate refused to hear his case, Yataro accused him of corruption. That landed him in prison for seven months. Yataro Iwasaki studied under the reformist Toyo Yoshida.
Iwasaki died on February 7, 1885, at age 50, due to stomach cancer, a condition that he reportedly battled in his final years. The nature of his illness and the demands of his role as the leader of a rapidly growing enterprise likely took a toll on his health.
Yataro leases the Nagasaki shipyard from the government. Yataro passes away on February 7. At Yataro's bequest, Yanosuke takes over the company. Mitsubishi is later passed on to Hisaya and Koyata, and Yataro's legacy continues to live on today through "the Mitsubishi companies".
The company was responsible for military transportation of the Taiwan Expedition and the Satsuma Rebellion. It also attempted to enter various markets such as mining, shipbuilding, finance, and trade. Mitsubishi competed fiercely with Kyodo Un-yu Kaisha, a rival steamship company, but Yataro died from illness in 1885.
