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Ichizō Kobayashi (小林 一三, Kobayashi Ichizō, January 3, 1873 – January 25, 1957), occasionally referred to by his pseudonym Itsuō (逸翁), was a Japanese industrialist and politician. He is best known as the founder of Hankyu Railway, the Takarazuka Revue, and Toho.
Jun 9, 2014 · Kobayashi Ichizō (1873–1957) was a powerful corporate leader, but today he is best remembered as the founder of the perennially popular all-female Takarazuka Revue. What began as a scheme to...
Ichizō Kobayashi (小林 一三, Kobayashi Ichizō, January 3, 1873; Nirasaki, Yamanashi – January 25, 1957; Ikeda, Osaka ), is Japanese industrialist. He is best known as the founder of Hankyu Railway, the Takarazuka Revue, and Toho. He represented Japanese capital in government.
Jun 4, 2014 · The company was the brainchild of Kobayashi Ichizō (1873–1957), the founder of the Hankyū Tōhō Group and a brilliant businessman. Kobayashi was also known as a man of culture with a love of ...
…was founded in 1936 by Kobayashi Ichizō, a former businessman who was the creator of an all-girl “opera troupe.” In 1932 he had organized the Tokyo Takarazuka Theatre Corporation, subsequently acquiring several established theatres and building new and larger ones.
The Takarazuka Revue was founded by Ichizō Kobayashi, an industrialist-turned-politician and president of Hankyu Railways, in Takarazuka, Japan in 1913. The city was the terminus of a Hankyu line from Osaka and already a popular tourist destination because of its hot springs.
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It was founded by Kobayashi Ichizō, whose contributions include growing the Hankyu Railway, opening the Hankyu Department Store (which was also Japanʼs first department store built inside a train terminal), and assisted in the establishment of the Toho Group.
