Local Boy Does Good: トヨタ自動車の新社長•CEO 近 健太

Toyota Motor Corporation has announced that 近 健太、currently CFO, will be promoted to new roles starting April 1. I remember Kon Kenta as a junior high school student at Kido Jr High, Niigata City. He was exceptional, naturally, perhaps the only graduate that year to be accepted into Niigata's premiere public HS 新潟高等学校。Moreover, I remember his single-kanji surname struck me as unusual at the time. Finally, he has aged quite well: I can still make out the teenager he was then. https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/caae5b25a30f281c19e2a19285242ec34e48d83c