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you know...? |
Tadashi
Yanai & family
his discount clothing chain, Fast Retailing, keeps
prices low by outsourcing production to China, Vietnam,
Cambodia and Bangladesh ... sticking to plan of opening
approximately 300 stores a year to gain on larger
competitors ... just opened the largest retail space
(89,000sq.ft) on 5th Ave, Manhattan, New York, for
a $300 million lease
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Masayoshi
Son
gave $125
million to charities for the nuclear disaster in Tohoku,
and pledged all of his future Softbank salaries to support
quake orphans |
Hiroshi
Mikitani
Rakuten, Internet shopping mall, hosts more than 30,000
virtual stores selling 40,000 products |
Kunio
Busujima & family
founder of Sankyo, gambling-machine maker |
Yoshikazu
Tanaka
founder
and CEO of Gree, Japan's biggest online network with 29
million users in Japan and 190 million globally |
Akira
Mori & family
he and his brother, Mnoru (also a billionaire),
inherited their fortunes from their father, Taikichiro
Mori, who was the richest man in the world
from1991-1992 |
Takemitsu
Takizaki
founder of Keyence |
Han
Chang-Woo & family
immigrated
from Korea |
Keiichiro
Takahara
chairman and founder
of Unicharm
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Eitaro
Itoyama
circumnavigated the world 3 times in a 150-foot-yacht |
Previous
Top 10 Billionaires
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| Hiroshi
Yamauchi ...
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| Katsumi
Tada ... |
Masahiro
Miki
former amateur boxer ... discount shoe retailer, opens
an average of 50 new stores a year |
Deceased
Top 10 Billionaires |
Taikichiro
Mori
the
World's Richest Person from 1991-1992,
died of heart failure on January 30, 1993, age 88. He
was worth $13 billion
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