Onitsuka Has Passed Away

2007-10-12T00:00:00

With his habit of quoting Buddhist proverbs and striking up Japanese songs at industry meetings, Kihachiro Onitsuka cut an original figure in the international sporting goods business. Tributes poured in after the inspiring founder and chairman of ASICS Corporation died of heart failure in a Kobe hospital on Sept. 29, ...

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