Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.

"That year, I was 35 years old and served as the Executive Director of Shougun Commercial Stock Co., Ltd. (now Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.), which my father managed. After graduating from university, I worked in a supermarket for 10 months. After resigning, I led a loose life for a while, then took over my father's men's suit store. When the first Uniqlo store opened, it was exactly the 12th year of my joining the company. Although at that time I couldn't distinguish the difference between "doing business" and "working", I had already begun to feel the joy and fear of doing business."

"In the following years, I challenged various markets with clothing sales as the core, experienced several failures, and made some business friends. In the end, I established "Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.". Currently, the company not only carries out Uniqlo's retail business throughout Japan, but also opens Uniqlo specialty stores in countries and regions such as the UK and China. In the process, we learned a lot of valuable things from our customers and our partners. What makes me proud is that the company also has a large number of hard-working excellent employees. On this occasion, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the directors and employees of the company for their great support and encouragement to me who is not very good in the past years."