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Fumiko Motoya
Fumiko Motoya's destiny entrusts the single point of breakage in her chart to her spouse's stem, and seats her as company president within forty years of adverse-element time. An executive who, from 1994, served as president of APA Hotel within the APA Group founded by her husband, and became the face of the hotel chain through her hats and the advertisements proclaiming "I am the president." We read the phases of destiny and time against her path: her part in the founding, her appointment as president, rapid expansion in central Tokyo, the entry into North America, the generational handover and the death of the founder.
At a Glance
The case
- Subject
- Fumiko Motoya (元谷芙美子) — President of APA Hotel
- Period analysed
- 1947–2026
- Three pillars
- Day 戊子 / Month 丁未 / Year 丁亥
- Void branches
- 午未 (Horse–Goat) — birth-month void
- Ten-year phase of the twin stem–branch link
- 癸丑, 2007–2017
- Destiny area
- 0.076 The area of the triangle formed by the three pillars on the sixty-cycle circle (maximum 1.30)
- Format
- PDF, 12 pages — written in Japanese
- Price
- ¥50,000 including tax
Research Brief
What the case shows
- The forty years from 1957 to 1997 are ten-year phases of the adverse element. Her part in the founding, the establishment of APA Hotel and her appointment as president all lie within them.
- In the ten years from 2007, her day pillar and the ten-year phase of her first guardian element form a twin stem–branch link. The rapid expansion in central Tokyo and the entry into North America lie within them.
- 2026 and 2027 are the two void years of her day pillar. The founder's death stands at their entrance.
- Her part in the founding, the establishment of APA Hotel and the entry into North America all fall in years of 二黒 (Two Black), which comes round every nine years.
Questions
The questions the report answers
- Why does her spouse's stem carry the single point of breakage in her chart?
- What did the decade of advance bind to her day pillar?
- What does the ten-year phase from 2027 bring into alignment within her destiny?
Public Record
The record, year by year
Selected events from the public record. Analysis and judgement are given in the report itself.
| 1947 | 丁亥 | 8 Jul — Born in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture |
| 1971 | 辛亥 | Apr — Her husband founds Shinkin Kaihatsu (now APA); she becomes a director |
| 1980 | 庚申 | APA Hotel Co., Ltd. is established |
| 1984 | 甲子 | The first APA Hotel opens in Kanazawa |
| 1994 | 甲戌 | Apr — Becomes president of APA Hotel Co., Ltd. |
| 2006 | 丙戌 | Mar — Completes the master's programme at the Graduate School of Public Management, Waseda University |
| 2010 | 庚寅 | Launches the medium-term plan SUMMIT 5 |
| 2011 | 辛卯 | Mar — Completes the doctoral programme at the same school |
| 2015 | 乙未 (天) | The network reaches 51,896 rooms, exceeding the target of 40,000 |
| 2016 | 丙申 | Acquires a Canadian hotel chain and enters North America |
| 2022 | 壬寅 | Apr — Her eldest son, Kazushi Motoya, becomes group president and CEO |
| 2026 | 丙午 (天) | 11 Feb — The founder, Toshio Motoya, dies aged 82 |
Year pillars change at Risshun, in early February. (天) = void year or void decade.
Contents
14 pages
- Destiny profile and chart
- Yin and yang charts
- Axis and type of destiny
- Ten-year phases
- Four phases of the adverse element
- The decade of the twin link
- Succession and the void
- Hexagrams and the year chart
- Years of special stem-branch pairs
- Timeline chart
- Public record
- Conclusion
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Analysis supervised by FAITH (Makoto Tokunaga) — MSc Economics, University of Warwick · CICP · Shugakuin Saii