Business leader during the era of tremendous economic growth in Japan. He served as the president of the Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company and the Toshiba Corporation. He was also the first president of the Japan Productivity Promotion Association and was president of the Japan Federation of Economics. He is the subject of a book, “I Don’t Ask You No More, The World of Taizo Ishizaka”(1995). (bio by: Warrick L. Barrett)