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The Kobayashi Family
The destiny of the Kobayashi family is built so that the entry into the top seat and the exit from it fall on the first and second openings of the same blank window in the flow of fortune. The fourth and fifth generations of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical. We read the destinies of father and son and the phases of their time against a lineage of roughly a century since the founding and the events of 2024.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Akihiro Kobayashi (小林章浩), fifth generation / Kazumasa Kobayashi (小林一雅), fourth generation
- Period analysed
- 1919–2024
- Three pillars — Akihiro Kobayashi
- Day 戊戌 / Month 癸巳 / Year 辛亥
- Void branches
- 辰巳 (Dragon–Snake) — the month branch, Snake, falls within it
- Three pillars — Kazumasa Kobayashi
- Day 己未 / Month 癸酉 / Year 己卯 · void branches 子丑 (Rat–Ox)
- Format
- PDF, 11 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- His appointment as president in June 2013 falls in a void year of 辰巳 (癸巳), a year that also brings the same stem-branch as his month pillar.
- The announcement of 22 March 2024 and his departure in August of that year fall in the next void year of 辰巳 (甲辰).
- His father Kazumasa's twenty-year void begins in September 2013, three months after his eldest son took office, and runs for twenty years.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why did the entry into the seat and the exit from it fall on the first and second openings of the same window?
- In which layers do the charts of father and son coincide, and in which are they reversed?
- How does the distribution of the five bonds correspond to the events?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1919 | 己未 | Kichitaro Kobayashi founds the business, followed by Saburo and Eiko |
| 1976 | 丙辰 (天) | Kazumasa Kobayashi becomes president (fourth generation) and expands the company over the next 28 years |
| 1994 | 甲戌 | Akihiro Kobayashi graduates from the Faculty of Economics, Keio University, and joins Tokyo Kao Hanbai |
| 1998 | 戊寅 | Akihiro joins Kobayashi Pharmaceutical; in 2001 he earns an MBA from Michigan State University |
| 2004 | 甲申 | Kazumasa steps down as president to become chairman; Yutaka Kobayashi becomes president (to 2013) |
| 2013 | 癸巳 (天) | 4 Mar — Akihiro is named president-designate; in late June he becomes president and representative director |
| 2024 | 甲辰 (天) | 22 Mar — Announces health damage linked to products containing beni-koji (red yeast rice) ingredients. 26 Mar — Announces deaths |
| 2024 | 甲辰 (天) | 30 Mar — The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Osaka City inspect the Osaka plant |
| 2024 | 甲辰 (天) | 23 Jul — Report of the fact-finding committee; the same day, the resignations of the chairman and president are resolved |
| 2024 | 甲辰 (天) | 8 Aug — Akihiro steps down as president; Satoshi Yamane succeeds him |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Void and the timeline
- Yin and yang charts
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- The conditions the destiny pointed to
- The imagery of the three pillars, and the five bonds
- Destiny profile and chart
- The arc of the ten-year phases
- Father and son compared
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii