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Майкл Коган | |
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Born | Michael Kogan January 1, 1920 Odessa, Ukrainian People's Republic |
Died | February 5, 1984(1984-02-05) (aged 64) Los Angeles, California, United States |
Occupation | Businessman |
Known for | Founder of Taito |
Children | 2 |
Michael “Misha” Kogan (January 1, 1920 – February 5, 1984) was a Ukrainian Jewish businessman who founded the Japanese video game company Taito.
Early life
He was born in Odessa. His family moved to Harbin, Manchuria to escape the Russian Revolution of 1917, where he later met Colonel Norihiro Yasue, a member of the Japanese Army's intelligence services and one of the architects of the Fugu Plan, a plan to settle European Jewish refugees in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. He moved to Tokyo in 1939, where he spent most of the duration of the war studying at Waseda School of Economics. He moved to Tianjin in 1944 before returning to Japan in 1950, settling in Setagaya, Tokyo.
Career
Kogan established the Taito Trading Company in 1953, and it eventually became Taito Corporation. The company started out importing and distributing vending machines and then jukeboxes before evolving to manufacture their own.
Kogan died during a business trip in Los Angeles in 1984. After his passing, his son, Abraham "Abba" Kogan, became Taito's chairman and Akio Nakanishi became its president.
His son, Abba, lives in Monaco. His daughter, Rita, lived in Southern California and was married to Richard Edlund, founder of Boss Film Studios and an Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Supervisor until her death in 2019. As of 2005 she still maintained an 8.50% holding of Taito stock. After his wife, Asya passed away on December 21, 2013, it was discovered that about 10 billion yen in inheritance taxes for overseas property was not paid.
References
- "Taito". Retrieved 15 November 2016.
- "Nakanishi Appointed As New President Of Taito Corp" (PDF). Game Machine. Amusement Press, Inc. 1984-04-01. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
- "NOTICE ON RESULTS OF SQUARE ENIX’S TENDER OFFER AND CHANGE IN CONSOLIDATED SUBSIDIARY" ("公開買付けの結果及び子会社の異動に関するお知らせ") (Japanese)(English)
- "In Memory of Asya Kogan". jewsofchina.org. April 2014. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
- "タイトー創業者妻の海外遺産、相続税100億円未納". The Nikkei. Nikkei, Inc. 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
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