Tetsuya Takagi

DEC. 11 I YAMAHA I OBITUARY
Tetsuya Takagi Passes Away

Tetsuya Takagi, retired executive vice president of Yamaha Corporation of America, passed away on Nov. 22, 2017.

Prior to serving as executive vice president of Yamaha International Corporation (currently Yamaha Corporation of America), Takagi worked for Yamaha Corporation in Japan in several important positions, according to NAMM's Oral History Program.

Takagi received a scholarship from Yamaha while in college and went to work there after graduating in 1960. In 1969 he was ordered to serve in California as part of Yamaha International Corporation, which had opened in 1960. Takagi helped establish many of the management programs still utilized today throughout Yamaha.

He was 81 years old.

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