There are many examples of billionaires from all over the globe. How they made this amount of money differs from one individual to another. While some have been gifted with enormous sums of cash, others have created businesses from scratch that are highly profitable and lucrative. Many people who have made charts of the most successful people on the planet are from Japan. The following are the top 10 richest people in Japan.
10. Hideyuki Bujima – $4.45 Billion
Forbes list Hideyuki Bujima as the 10th most wealthy individual in Japan. He was the son of Kunio Busujima the creator of Sankyo the maker of pachinko machines. Even though his father passed away in the year 2016, Hideyuki Busujima was the CEO and chairman of the company since position he held since 2008 and has worked for since 1977 the company. His father also handed his shares in the company to him in 2014. Two sisters also have a part in the corporation. Busujima lives in Tokyo, Japan.
9. Shigenobu Nagamori – $4.5 Billion
Nagamori is the founder, chairman, and chief executive director of Nidec which is a motor manufacturing company. The company claims it is the world’s largest producer of optical drive motors and hard disk drives. One of his goals is to increase the revenue of his business in 2021. Alongside being the 9th richest man in Japan and the world, he is the ninth-richest billionaire in the world. He is married to two children and resides in Kyoto, Japan.
8. Akira Mori – $4.7 Billion
Mori is the founder and chief executive officer of the development of properties firm Mori Trust. He also serves as the co-CEO for this company and his child Miwako Date, who has been appointed co-CEO and president of the company in the year 2016. Mori Trust Mori Trust owns over 100 properties located in Tokyo and in other regions of Japan including hotels, as well as office buildings. While Mori is aged 80, the entrepreneur has huge goals for his future. There are plans to invest about $7 billion in new projects in the coming decade.
7. Takahisa Takahara – $5.2 Billion
Takahisa Takahara is a brand new inclusion on this list of top 10 wealthiest billionaires from Japan, says Japan Forward. He is the chief executive officer of Unicharm which produces a variety of personal care products including napkins and diapers. The majority of the company’s revenues come in Asian countries. Takahara’s father Keiichiro Takahara was the founder of the business in the year 1961. Takahara took over the business with his siblings in the year 2018.
6. Yasumitsu Shigeta – $5.4 Billion
Shigeta is the chief executive officer of the retailer of mobile phones, Tsushin. The company also offers office equipment as well as insurance. Shigeta discovered his business in 1998 and became Japan’s youngest self-made billionaire in 1999, at just 34. The world of his life turned upside down in 2001 when he was unable to regain his fortune of $42 billion due to the dot-com market crash however, he battled back to the top and was his way onto the Forbes list of the top billionaires worldwide in 2005.
5. Hiroshi Mikitani – $6 Billion
To get this position, Hiroshi Mikitani has been an extremely busy person in recent times. Not only is he director of the company’s chairman and CEO Rakuten Japan, the country’s largest online retailer as well as the owner of his own U.S.-based rebate site Ebates. He also acquired various businesses that included the American electronic book retailer OverDrive and a 12-percent stake in Lyft, a car-sharing service. The year before, he signed agreements to sponsor FC Barcelona and the Golden State Warriors. Mikitani has won numerous prizes and is an active member of the boards of numerous businesses and associations, such as serving as chairman of the Tokyo Philharmonic orchestra. He got married to his wife, Haruko in 1993. they have two children.
4. Nobutada Saji – $10.8 Billion
Nobutada Saji is director of Suntory Holdings, which is an energy drink manufacturer which was established in 1899. It was in the year 2014 that Suntory Holdings purchased U.S. Beam, who produces Marker’s Mark and Jim Beam Bourbons. The acquisition was worth $16 billion. Saji’s net worth comprises the stakes that his family members hold within Suntory holdings.
3. Takemitsu Takizaki – $18.6 Billion
Takemitsu Takizaki is ranked the highest-earning billionaire of the world. He was the founder of Keyence which supplies electronic components and sensors to factory automation systems. Takizaki is still in the director’s chair of the company, despite quitting as chairman in the year. Based on Investopedia, Takizaki’s net worth has increased by 1 billion since 2018, which implies that he’s risen one spot on the list of wealthiest people.
2. Masayoshi Son – $24 Billion
The year before, Masayoshi Son was ranked as one of the most wealthy men in Japan However, Son has been eclipsed by Tadashi Yanai. Son created a mobile phone company known as Softbank. In 2017, the company earned revenues of $81 billion. Softbank has also diversified its portfolio by investing in other companies over the past two years and has also made investments in companies like Uber as well as WeWork. Son is not only the second-richest individual in Japan, Son is also the 43rd-richest billionaire in the world.
1. Tadashi Yanai – $24.9 Billion
As per Forbes, Tadashi Yanai is the most wealthy individual in Japan after he knocked Masayoshi Son of first place. Yania has been ranked as the highest-income person in Japan before but hasn’t made it onto the list since the year 2015. He is the co-founder of the clothing retail company Fast Retailing, which is the parent company of the Uniqlo chain. The company also owns brands such as Theory as well as J Brand. In the past, the company was planning to establish 1,000 stores across the United States, but he has put this plan on hold to focus on the expansion of Asian countries, like Thailand as well as China. The goal is for his clothing store to become the biggest retailer in the world.