Takahiro Sato

Takahiro Sato (佐藤 崇弘, Satō Takahiro, 22 April 1980）is a Japanese Entrepreneur. Sato is the founder and still a major shareholder of LITALICO Corporation, a company serving people with special needs...若手起業支援へ３億円投資　リタリコ大株主 - 河北新報、2016年3月17日. He is also the founder and chairman of Capital Tokyo International School, which will open in April 2022 in Minato Ward, Tokyo.
==Early Life==
Born in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture. Sato's parents ran a real estate businesshttp://case.dreamgate.gr.jp/mbl_t/id=819. He graduated from Fukushima Prefectural Fukushima High School. After failing the medical school entrance exams twicehttp://case.dreamgate.gr.jp/mbl_t/id=820, Sato enrolled at the Faculty of Business Planning at Miyagi University, where he became an aspiring entrepreneurhttp://case.dreamgate.gr.jp/mbl_t/id=820. While in school, Sato borrowed 1 million yen from his parents and started day trading in September 2000, doubling the amount to 2 million yen in less than a year.
In April 2002, Sato established the "Fureai Fukushi Kai" (Friendship Welfare Association), a facility for the mentally handicapped, based on a story he heard from his handicapped unclehttp://case.dreamgate.gr.jp/mbl_t/id=820. In addition, Sato established five group homes for the elderly, which generated annual sales of about 200 million yenhttp://case.dreamgate.gr.jp/mbl_t/id=820. In January of his senior year at university, Sato became a fixed-term executive official of Nagano Prefecture, and as welfare manager of the Commons Welfare Division of the Social Affairs Department, he started a remote outsourcing business for people with disabilitieshttp://case.dreamgate.gr.jp/mbl_t/id=821
==Biography==
;Pre Graduation Achievements
*Established Fureai Fukushi Kai, a facility for the mentally handicapped, and became its representative.
*Established NPO Sōugō Kenkyusho (General Research Institute) and assumed the position of President.
*Implemented a third-party evaluation project for welfare facilities that was proposed to, and adopted by Miyagi Prefecture.
*Established Life Support, a limited liability company *Established Miyagi Welfare Research Institute, a limited liability company (group home for the elderly with dementia)
;Post Graduation
*Sep 2004: Appointed as Welfare Manager (Division Chief level), Commons Welfare Division, Nagano Prefecture (youngest in history)
*Apr 2005: Appointed Social Counselor (Director level) and Chief of Commons Welfare Division, Nagano Prefecture (youngest in history)
*Sep 2005: Resigned as Social Counselor and Director of Commons Welfare Division, Nagano Prefecture
*Dec 2005: Established Ideal Career Inc. (currently LITALICO) as Representative Director
*Jul 2009: Ran in the Mayor of Sendai election. He was unsuccessful in his bid for the mayor of Sendai, finishing fifth out of six candidates with 32281 votes. (Elected Emiko Okuyama)
*Aug 2009: Retired as Representative Director of Wingul Corporation (renamed from Ideal Career in 2006). Appointed as Part-time Director
*Apr 2022 Plans to open https://www.capitaltokyo.com/ Capital Tokyo International School (abbreviated CTIS) in Minami-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Category:Japanese businesspeople
Category:People from Fukushima Prefecture 
Category:1980 births