Mary Suzuki

Mary Suzuki was a Japanese businessman, and the father of Lee Suzuki. He was the founder and manager of Suzuki News Agents, Ltd., a small Japanese chain of news agents based around Eastern Asia, until his death in 2007, when the company ultimately went bankrupt and dissolved.

Suzuki News Agents, Ltd.
Mary was born in Japan on 4 May, 1951. His family were quite poor and Mary's parents put a lot of pressure on him to earn a large profit by starting a small chain of news agents, so that's what he did. In 1973, he founded Suzuki News Agents, Ltd., and by 1978 the franchise had expanded from one store to 609. I'd say that's a pretty good expansion over a 5 year period.

Berthing Lee and death
In 1979, Mary met an unnamed woman (who quite frankly doesn't deserve a name) and married her soon after in 1983. In 1984, Mary and the unnamed woman berthed Lee Suzuki, their daughter. Mary wanted Lee to follow in his footsteps and take over the family business after he passed, so he trained her in 'fraudulentscumbagology', the study of being a fraudulent scumbag. She succeeded in her course, and became a fully-professional fraudulentscumbagologist. Mary was very proud.

Mary worked as the Chief Executive Officer of Suzuki News Agents, Ltd. until his death on 19 July, 2007. Lee didn't take over her father, because she got distracted by a train and sat there watching it for 5 years. After her train-watching, she forgot she was a news agent, and thought she was a travel agent. She then became a travel agent, much to Mary's dead spirit's disappointment.

Physical description
Mary was a short old man, measuring up to only 5'3" and weighing 49 kg throughout his entire lifetime. He had nice deep black eyes.

Appearances in the books
Mary is only mentioned in the second instalment, 'Norman McFinger II: The Adventure Continues'."'Lee used to work at a convenience store helping her father's family business.'""'Lee had never been asked a question in her life, because she was a fraud. Lee's father Mary taught her how to be a fraudulent scumbag when she was little.'"- Excerpt from Norman McFinger II: The Adventure Continues (pages 7 and 10)