Tomio Moriguchi
Tomio Moriguchi was named one of the most influential business executives of the past 35 years by the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Moriguchi took over his family’s business, Uwajimaya, after working as a Boeing engineer, and he is currently company chairman after serving as its CEO for 30 years. According to the Journal, Moriguchi and other family members in the business made one of their boldest moves in 2000, when they opened the 66,000-square-foot Uwajimaya Village in the heart of Seattle’s Chinatown/International District. (end)