Yasuchika Hasegawa, ex-Takeda CEO and globalization champion, dies at 80

Led Millennium Pharmaceuticals purchase, served as chief of Keizai Doyukai business lobby Yasuchika Hasegawa led Takeda and the Japanese business community "with exceptional decision-making and extraordinary leadership, laying the foundation for the global company we are today," says Julie Kim, Takeda's current president and CEO. (Nikkei) TOKYO — Yasuchika Hasegawa, former president and CEO of Takeda Pharmaceutical, who also served as a chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai) and played a leading role in advancing the globalization of Japanese companies, died on July 3. He was 80.

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