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Hachisaburo Hirao was an entrepreneur who built the management foundation of Tokio Marine together with Kenkichi Kagami. He was also an educator who founded Konan Gakuen. Hirao joined Tokio Marine as a successor to Kagami who was assigned to London, and both of them devoted themselves to the development of Japan's non-life insurance business for the rest of their lives. Hirao aimed to enhance insurance services from the customer's point of view by abolishing the entertainment business for obtaining insurance contracts and offering low insurance premiums. While serving as an officer of Tokio Marine, Hirao was asked by Mitsui Zaibatsu (industrial and financial conglomerate) to serve concurrently as an officer of Taisho Marine and Fire Insurance and Fuso Marine Insurance. This was because Hirao's management of aiming at the interests of society as a whole and the sound growth of the non-life insurance industry was highly evaluated. Hirao was worried about uniform education in Japan, so he founded Konan Gakuen with the aim of providing education through a personal touch. When he was serving as Minister of Education, he advocated an eight-year compulsory education system in order to foster originality of young students. |
