Takumi Shibata has long been considered among the most brilliant of Nomura’s rising stars. “He’s without doubt one of the most able at the bank,” says one British banker who has known him since 1988. “Analytical, decisive, and absolutely the right man considering Nomura’s strategy of giving the international business such a large sway within the firm.”
The eldest of three brothers, Shibata was born in Yokohama in 1953, the son of a merchant seaman who’d survived three sinkings by allied torpedoes during World War II.
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