Yorihiko Kojima

Who is Yorihiko Kojima?

Yorihiko Kojima is the president and chief executive officer of Mitsubishi Corporation

Kojima was born in Tokyo during World War II, the son of Kazuo and Sakae Kojima. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya High School. In 1965, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Tokyo in mechanical engineering. He joined the Mitsusbishi Corporation that same year and continued with them his entire career. Kojima held various positions in the corporation in Tokyo, in Saudi Arabia and the United States. In 1995 he was appointed to Mitsubishi's Board of Directors as an inside director. In 2001, he went from being managing director of the corporation's merchant banking group to vice president; and in 2004 he moved up to president and CEO, when then president Mikio Sasaki replaced the out-going Minoru Makihara as chairman of the board.

He is a member of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, and was vice-chairman of that organization in 2003, and a board member from 2003 to 2008.