Taikichiro mori biography of mahatma
Taikichiro mori biography of mahatma
Taikichiro Mori: The Unlikely Billionaire Who Transformed Tokyo!
Taikichiro Mori: The Unlikely Billionaire Who Transformed Tokyo
Did you know that Bill Gates held the title of the richest man in the world for 18 of the last 33 years? However, in 1991 and 1992, that title belonged to Taikichiro Mori, a mild-mannered economics professor who made a remarkable transition into a billionaire real estate developer.
Mori amassed a fortune of $16 billion in 1992—a staggering amount equivalent to $84.4 billion today—by leaving his academic career behind at the age of 55 and establishing a real estate empire in the heart of Tokyo. His buildings, recognized by his name and their sequential designation—Mori Building One, Mori Building Two, and so on—became landmarks in the city.
Mori, born on March 1, 1904, in Tokyo, had humble beginnings.
His father was a rice farmer and merchant, who gradually acquired two buildings over the years. After graduating from Tokyo Shoka University (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1928, he embarked on an academic care