Eiichi Takahashi

Takahashi wears his blond hair at shoulder length, paired with brown eyebrows and small, dark eyes. A black mustache sits above his lip, and he is invariably turned out in a black suit.

Within Yotsuba, Takahashi heads the Material Planning Division and Yotsuba Homes as vice president, yet supplementary material notes he never possessed any genuine leadership instinct. His colleagues regard him as foolish and barely thoughtful in what he says, and he was reportedly kept in the meetings mainly to flatter Higuchi by comparison, drawing teasing for it. His loose tongue does, however, betray a sharper moral sense than the rest of the boardroom: he alone protests the shift in Kira's killing pattern, branding it a killing service. Away from the company he is a married father, a surfer, and a graduate of Keiyo Business School, born to Karazo Takahashi, who presides over the Japan Financial Times.

Takahashi sits in on the so-called Meetings of Death with his fellow Yotsuba executives. Once the conspiracy unravels, he is eliminated alongside the surviving members of the group when Light Yagami writes their names into the Death Note. The 2015 television drama keeps his character largely intact but spares him, allowing him and the other six Yotsuba men to live through the story.