# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hiromasa-ezoe
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:35:04.062Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hiromasa-ezoe"
name: "Hiromasa Ezoe"
slug: "hiromasa-ezoe"
description: "Hiromasa Ezoe was a Japanese industrialist who founded Recruit Holdings. He is remembered as one of the most prolific entrepreneurs educated at the University of Tokyo, alongside Kiichiro Toyoda and Namihei Odaira. Ezoe was also the central figure in the Recruit insider trading scandal, which fundamentally changed the Japanese political landscape after the resignation of prominent figures including then-PM Noboru Takeshita."
tagline: "Japanese businessperson"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E4%BC%9A%E9%95%B7%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3_copia.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Business Professionals"
  slug: "business-professionals"
profileType:
  name: "Business Professional"
  slug: "business-professional"
birthDate: "1936-06-12"
deathDate: "2013-02-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.27
  momentum:             2.758620689655172
  historical:           2.205328
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11550665"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromasa_Ezoe"
    title: "Hiromasa Ezoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B1%9F%E5%89%AF%E6%B5%A9%E6%AD%A3"
    title: "江副浩正"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Discovered via Wikipedia top-views