11 Facts About Yoshiaki Tsutsumi

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was born May 29,1934, to businessman Yasujiro Yoshiaki Tsutsumi and his mistress Ishizaka Tsuneko.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was one of Yasujiro's seven children, and spent his childhood in a Tokyo suburb with Tsuneko and his two younger brothers, Yasuhiro and Yuji.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was said to have inherited his father's personality; he claimed to have begun assisting his father's business in elementary school, beginning with simple tasks like holding blueprints.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi made his earliest forays into business as a university student: in 1956, he opened the Karuizawa Skate Center in Nagano.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi later served as the first chairman of the Japan Olympic Committee, resigning in 1990, after less than a year.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi continued to work with them even after stepping down from the committee, and has been cited by former Japan Olympic Committee members as the reason for Nagano's successful bid.

For contributions to international ice hockey, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was inducted into the builder category of the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in 1999.

That scandal was originally opened in 2002 in Japan, after which Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was ordered by a court out of the company, but he remained in it, although at a much less paid employment.

On March 3,2005, Yoshiaki Tsutsumi was arrested on suspicion of violation of securities trading law.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi pleaded guilty, and on October 27,2005, the Tokyo District Court sentenced him to 30 months in prison, suspended for 4 years, and a fine of 5 million yen.

Yoshiaki Tsutsumi's suspended sentence expired in October 2009 and he remains indirectly a major shareholder in Seibu Holdings.