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About Osamu Matsubara
- Osamu Matsubara (?? ?, Matsubara Osamu, October 7, 1917 – January 3, 2012) was a Japanese businessman, business executive, and former chairman and CEO of Books Kinokuniya.Matsubara was President of Kinokuniya Company Ltd., the parent company of Books Kinokuniya, from October 1980 to November 2002.
- In November 2002, he became the Chief Executive Office and board chairman for Kinokuniya Company Ltd.
- Outside Japan, Matsubara oversaw the 2007 relocation of Books Kinokuniya's New York City location from Rockefeller Center to a new, 23,800 sq.
- feet, three-floor store across from Bryant Park.
- The store, with its 250,000 items, is considered the largest Japanese bookstore in the United States.[1] The inventory of the New York location includes an equal amount of Japanese and English books, which is in line with the company's goal to offer a wide assortment of titles in both Japanese and English.Osamu Matsubara died from heart failure on January 3, 2012, at the age of 94.
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