Makihara Satoru
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Makihara Satoru 槙原 覚 | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 March 1894 |
| Died | 8 May 1942 (aged 48) |
| Occupation | Industrialist |
Makihara Satoru (槙原 覚) was a Japanese businessman in the period leading up to World War II.
In 1922 he co-translated from German into Japanese the corporate management book Die Unternehmungsformen: mit Einschluß der Genossenschaften und der Sozialisierun by Robert Liefmann.[1]
He was a rival of Takagaki Katsujirō,[2] Mitsubishi's last president before the dissolution of the zaibatsu and first president after its reconstitution.
Arrest in London
Having received a scholarship from Iwasaki Hisaya, eldest son of Mitsubishi Corporation's founder Iwasaki Yatarō,[2] Makihara and his wife Haruko[2] went to Hampstead, London in 1927 as head of the Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha office.[2][3] Their only child,[2] a son Minoru Makihara was born there in 1930.[2] After some time elsewhere they returned to London in 1937.[3]
On Friday 2 August 1940, Makihara and several others were arrested on suspicion of espionage, and taken to Brixton Prison.[3][4][5][6] Thanks to intervention by the Japanophile (and pro-Japanese spy) Lord Sempill[7] and others, he was released a few days later, on Monday 5 August, due to "insufficient evidence".[3][8]
