TOKYO—Minoru Mori, whose entrepreneurial risk-taking helped transform the central Tokyo skyline and which set him apart within Japan’s staid real-estate world, has died at age 77, his company said Monday.
Mr. Mori had been chairman and chief executive officer of Mori Building Co., guiding it to become a major force in the city’s real-estate market. His 2003 Roppongi Hills complex, with its signature 54-story main building and complex of 220 shops and restaurants, became a magnet as Japan headquarters for many big international financial firms, including Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers.
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