{
  "id": 6703110,
  "title": "Ex-Takeda Pharmaceutical Head Hasegawa Dies at 80",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/11/ex-takeda-pharmaceutical-head-hasegawa-dies-at-80",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-11T03:54:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nippon.com News",
    "slug": "nippon-com-news",
    "url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026091100294/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Tokyo, Sept. 11 (Jiji Press)--Yasuchika Hasegawa, former president of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and former chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, or Keizai Doyukai, died at a Tokyo hospital July 3. He was 80. Born in Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan, he joined the major drugmaker in 1970 after graduating from Waseda University. In 2003, Hasegawa took over t...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}