Harunori Takahashi

[1] His father Yoshiharu Takahashi saved EIE from bankruptcy in June 1975.

In 1989, Takahashi started building what was to become The Regent New York on 57th Street, designed by I. M. Pei.

In a 1991 New York Times profile,[1] he was compared to Donald Trump, as a "brash" developer with a "hectic pace of property acquisitions", under pressure from banks and "struggling under $6 billion in shaky debt".

[1] At his peak, Takahashi owned Regent and Hyatt hotels across Asia, a floating hotel in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City, 50% of Australia's Bond University, Denarau Island in Fiji, and was building a thousand-mile railway in Australia's.

[4] Takahashi died on 18 July 2005, aged 59, following a brain haemorrhage in a hospital in Tokyo.