Soichiro Fukutake (福武 總一郎, Fukutake Sōichirō, born 1945) is a Japanese billionaire, and the former chairman of the Benesse Corporation, a publishing firm and juku company known for its patronage of the arts.
[1][2] Benesse owns 275 nursing homes in Japan and the Berlitz language schools.
[2] Fukutake is married, with one son Hideake, and lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
[1] He has created four museums or "art shrines" on the islands of Naoshima, Teshima and Inujima in an archipelago in Japan's southern Seto Inland Sea, including the Chichu Art Museum.
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