Michael "Misha" Kogan (January 1, 1920 – February 5, 1984) was a Ukrainian entrepreneur who founded the Japanese video game company Taito.
[1] His family moved to Harbin, Manchuria to escape the Russian Revolution, 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.
[2] Kogan closed Taitung in 1950 after the Communist takeover of China and started his second business in Japan shortly after, a company on clothing distribution, named Taito Yoko.
[2] The constant loss of products and negligent employees caused Taito Yoko to struggle financially,[3] and it was eventually abolished.
[9] After Asya passed away on December 21, 2013,[6] it was discovered that about 10 billion yen in inheritance taxes for overseas property was not paid.