Gift from top international businessman will propel Japanese studies at UCLAA $2.5 million gift from Tadashi Yanai, the chairman, president and CEO of global apparel retailer Fast Retailing and founder of Uniqlo, will help transform UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures into one of the world’s leading centers for the study of Japanese literature and culture. The gift will create the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities in the UCLA Colle
