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President, Itochu Corporation

Nationality: Japanese.

Education: Nagoya University, law degree, 1962.

Career: Itochu Corporation, 1966–1998, various positions; 1998–, president; 2004–, chairman.

Address: 5-1, Kyutaromachi 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka 541-8577 Japan; http://www.itochu.co.jp/.

■ Uichiro Niwa was a man with a radical vision for the Itochu Corporation, a company that was one of the largest in the world and intended to remain so. After Niwa became president of a company...