Hiromasa Ezoe

Japanese: 江副浩正 - えぞえひろまさ

Born: June 12, 1936, Ehime
[Died] February 8, 2013. Tokyo businessman. Founder of Recruit (Recruit Holdings). Inspired by his experience in sales at the University of Tokyo newspaper while studying at the University of Tokyo, he founded University Newspaper Advertising, the predecessor of Recruit, upon graduation in 1960. The following year, in 1961, he launched the job information magazine "Invitation to Companies" (later renamed "Recruit Book"). In 1984, the company name was changed to Recruit. He was the first student entrepreneur and a dynamic figure in the world of job advertising. He developed the business and diversified it into job advertising, real estate, travel, and career change guidance. He was in the spotlight as a new-age manager, having produced many entrepreneurs among his employees, and was also active as a public figure. However, he was arrested in 1989 in the Recruit Scandal, where he was charged with bribery for transferring unlisted shares of his subsidiary Recruit Cosmos to influential people in the business and political worlds in 1988, when he was chairman. After a 14-year trial, he was found guilty and given a suspended sentence in 2003. After that, he retired from the front line, but continued to be active in charity work, investment, and writing.

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Japanese:

[生]1936.6.12. 愛媛
[没]2013.2.8. 東京
実業家。リクルート（→リクルートホールディングス）創業者。東京大学在学時に東京大学新聞での営業経験からヒントを得て，1960年に同大学卒業と同時にリクルートの前身である大学新聞広告を設立。翌 1961年に就職情報誌『企業への招待』（のち『リクルートブック』）を創刊。1984年社名をリクルートに改称。学生起業家のはしりとなるとともに，求人広告の世界で風雲児的な存在となる。事業を発展させて，求人広告，不動産，旅行，転職案内など事業を多角化。社員のなかに数多くの起業家を生み出すなど，新時代の経営者として脚光を浴び，言論人としても活躍した。しかし，会長だった 1988年に子会社リクルートコスモスの未公開株を財界，政界の有力者に譲渡した行為が贈賄罪に問われたリクルート事件で 1989年に逮捕。14年間に及んだ裁判の末に 2003年，執行猶予つき有罪が確定。その後，第一線から退いたものの，慈善事業，投資，執筆などで活躍した。

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