:Yorihiko Kojima

{{Short description|Japanese businessman}}

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{{Nihongo|Yorihiko Kojima|小島 順彦|Kojima Yorihiko|born 15 October 1941}}, {{post-nominals|country=AUS|ACh}} is the chairman of the board of Mitsubishi Corporation, and its former president and chief executive officer (CEO).

Kojima was born in Tokyo during World War II, the son of Kazuo and Sakae Kojima. He graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Hibiya High School.{{Cite journal|title=三菱商事株式会社 - 代表取締役社長 小島 順彦" "Mitsubishi Corporation - Yorihiko Kojima President" |journal= IR Magazine |issue= Autumn |year=2004 |volume= 67 |language=Japanese|url=http://www.net-ir.ne.jp/ir_magazine/sugao/vol067_8058.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421174645/http://www.net-ir.ne.jp/ir_magazine/sugao/vol067_8058.html |archive-date=21 April 2009|url-status=dead}} In 1965, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Tokyo in mechanical engineering.{{Cite journal|url=http://sangakukan.jp/journal/profile-b/kojima-y.html |title=Profile: 小島 順彦 (Profile: Yorihiko Kojima) |journal=産学官連携ジャーナル (Industry-University-Government Cooperation Journal) |year=2008|issue=1 (January)|volume=4|language=Japanese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025062704/http://sangakukan.jp/journal/profile-b/kojima-y.html|archive-date=25 October 2008|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|title=三菱商事 小島順彦社長 (Yorihiko Kojima, president of Mitsubishi Corporation) |newspaper=Reuters |location=Japan |date=29 December 2008|language=Japanese |url=http://president.jp.reuters.com/article/2009/02/06/017B10A0-ED01-11DD-B9BB-C3CE3E99CD51.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221094002/http://president.jp.reuters.com/article/2009/02/06/017B10A0-ED01-11DD-B9BB-C3CE3E99CD51.php |archive-date=21 February 2009|url-status=dead}}

He joined the Mitsusbishi Corporation that same year and continued with them his entire career. Kojima held various positions in the corporation in Tokyo, in Saudi Arabia and the United States.{{Cite web|author=Kojima, Yorihiko |title=米国勤務時代の思い出 (Memories of working in the United States) |date=October 2010 |publisher=Japan Association of Corporate Executives |language= Japanese |url=http://www.doyukai.or.jp/publish/2010/pdf/2010_10_05.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118190425/http://www.doyukai.or.jp/publish/2010/pdf/2010_10_05.pdf |archive-date=18 January 2015 |url-status=live}} In 1995 he was appointed to Mitsubishi's Board of Directors as an inside director (取締役). In 2001, he went from being managing director of the corporation's merchant banking group to vice president; and in 2004 he moved up to president and CEO, when then president Mikio Sasaki replaced the out-going Minoru Makihara as chairman of the board.Staff (21 January 2004) "Mitsubishi chairman retiring" United Press International (UPI) In 2010, Kojima himself left the position of president and CEO to become chairman of the board of directors.{{Cite web|title= Yorihiko Kojima: Brief History|publisher=Mitsubishi Corporation|url=http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/about/bmembers/ykojima.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131026090148/http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/about/bmembers/ykojima.html|archive-date=26 October 2013|url-status=live}}

He is a member of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), and was vice-chairman of that organization in 2003, and a board member from 2003 to 2008.{{Cite web|title=2008年度（平成20年度）通常総会前記者会見発言要旨 (Press Conference Statement on the 2008 Fiscal Year General Meeting: Retirements) |date=25 April 2008 |publisher=Japan Association of Corporate Executives |language= Japanese |url=http://www.doyukai.or.jp/chairmansmsg/pressconf/2008/080425b.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100129081946/http://www.doyukai.or.jp/chairmansmsg/pressconf/2008/080425b.html |archive-date=29 January 2010 |url-status=live}}