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Let these visionary business leaders guide us to global sustainability

Yatarō Iwasaki started his business with three rented steamboats as a small, local trading company. Accordingly, he named his company “three water chestnuts”, or better known in Japanese as “Mitsubishi.” More than 145 years later, it is one of the world’s biggest and most-well-known conglomerates. But Iwasaki’s business activities were not all about the money. He strongly believed in Japan’s growth and welfare opportunities as the country opened itself up to the world, and especially to the United States (after the 1854 Convention of Kanagawa). This growth and opening was an extreme change for the country, and ended 220 years of self-imposed national seclusion.