Yoshiomi Tamai, the founder and longtime president of the Ashinaga Foundation, which has supported over 110,000 orphaned students, died Saturday in Tokyo. He was 90 years old.

Tamai died from septic shock at 1:46 a.m. on Saturday at the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center in Shibuya Ward, according to the Ashinaga Foundation. His funeral will be held privately, in accordance with his family’s wishes.

“He passed peacefully, surrounded by his family and colleagues from the foundation,” said Ashinaga spokesperson Hokuto Shimada. “He looked calm, as if simply falling asleep.”