About Harunori Takahashi
Lived 1945 – 2005 (aged 59). Harunori Takahashi was a Japanese businessperson.
was a Japanese billionaire property developer and the head of EIE International Corp.
Early life Harunori Takahashi came from a prominent family in western Japan, near Nagasaki, and was descended from a pre-war Prime Minister.
Career Takahashi was head of the privately owned EIE International Corp, which at one time owned one trillion yen in real estate assets.
In 1986, EIE acquired a 35% stake in Regent Hotels & Resorts. In 1989, Takahashi started building what was to become The Regent New York on 57th Street, designed by I. M. Pei. In a 1991 New York Times profile, he was compared to Donald Trump, as a "brash" developer with a "hectic pace of property acquisitions", under pressure from banks and "struggling under $6 billion in shaky debt".
Takahashi died on 18 July 2005, aged 59, following a brain haemorrhage in a hospital in Tokyo.
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Who was Harunori Takahashi?
(1945-2005)
When was Harunori Takahashi born?
Harunori Takahashi was born on 9 October 1945.
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Harunori Takahashi died on 18 July 2005.
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Harunori Takahashi was a businessperson.
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Harunori Takahashi was Japanese.
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