Barclyas’s Chiwata Is Swapping His Spreadsheets for Scuba
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Koichiro Chiwata, head of Japan equity research at Barclays Plc, is trading in his spreadsheets for the blue waters of Okinawa, ending a career that spanned the country’s 1980s asset bubble and the 23-year slump that followed.
Chiwata, 54, left Barclays in Tokyo yesterday to start a diving center with friends on Ishigaki Island, in the Pacific Ocean east of Taiwan. He was inspired by a previous visit to Ishigaki on a trip with his 85-year-old father and two sons to see Okinawa’s brilliant corals and tropical fish, he said in a telephone interview.