Robot maker Fanuc's CEO steps back after 16 years at controls

Son of founder presided over doubling of market capitalization

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Fanuc CEO Yoshiharu Inaba speaks at the Nikkei Global Management Forum in November 2018. (Photo by Yuki Nakao)

MASASHI ISAWA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Japanese robot maker Fanuc's CEO, Yoshiharu Inaba, will leave his post Monday as head of the world's biggest supplier of factory automation equipment, replaced by President Kenji Yamaguchi.

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