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Yoshida Tadao , a Japanese entrepreneur, was born in in Kurobe Township, Toyama Prefecture, Japan, and went to Shanghai, China, in the s to study business. In , after Japan's defeat, he set up a zip factory in Kurobe, making zips with human machinery; to improve the quality of the zips, he imported old machines from the United States for making zips with various different alloy materials, producing high-quality zips.

Yoshida: The “Cycle of Goodness” was coined by Tadao Yoshida, the founder of YKK, to express the compa- ny's philosophy in a single phrase.

He had two older siblings and an older sister. His father's profession was a combination of chicken farming and pet sales, and the family was very poor but very warm and friendly. Growing up in such an environment, young Yoshida was a daring young man who often saw opportunities to start small businesses to earn a little money to support the family.

He once persuaded his classmates to join him in buying a fishing net with the 1. It was this persistent, perceptive character that contributed to his success. In , at the age of 15, Yoshida graduated from higher primary schools and excelled in his studies during his school years, but because his family was too poor to continue his studies, he began working after graduation.

First, he worked in his eldest brother's rubber boot shop in a neighbouring town, and with the belief that he could not stop studying, he enrolled as an external student at Waseda Industrial School and studied on his own.

When pursuing his business, YKK's founder, Tadao Yoshida, was most concerned with that aspect, and would find a path leading to mutual prosperity.

In , at the age of 20, he came alone to Tokyo, the heart of Japan, in search of a career, with only 70 yen from his eldest brother. For the next few years he worked in the Furuya Store, a department store dealing in ceramics and other goods, owned by his fellow countryman Furuya. From his initial role as a casual worker to his eventual role as head of the core business, including stocking goods in Shanghai, his diligence, sincere work style and strong sense of responsibility won him many friends and partners.

However, the s were a time of war in Japan and the Furuya Store went through two major crises before finally closing down in After the closure, Furuya Store had a lot of unsold sub-standard zips, and Tadao Yoshida persuaded his supplier to lend him the zips as an investment, and his sincerity impressed the supplier to get the goods. With only two employees and a capital of yen saved from frugal food, he had a debt of 2, yen.