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2012-Japan

TOP 10 - Japanese Billionaires ... (7 March 2012) ... Wealth in USD$ ... compiled by www.Rich-Bastards.com
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Name
Wealth
Source
Residence
Personal
1. Tadashi Yanai & family

$10.0 billion

retail

Tokyo

63yo - Married, 2 children

2. Masayoshi Son $7.2 billion Softbank (software) Tokyo 54yo - Married, 2 children
3. Hiroshi Mikitani $6.2 billion online retailing Tokyo 47yo - Married, 1 child
4. Kunio Busujima & family $5.9 billion gaming Gunma 86yo - Married, 4 children
5. Yoshikazu Tanaka $4.3 billion social networking Tokyo 35yo - single
6. Akira Mori & family

$3.5 billion

real estate

Tokyo

75yo - Married, 3 children

6. Takemitsu Takizaki $3.5 billion sensors (manufacturing) Osaka 66yo - Married
8. Han Chang-Woo & family $3.1 billion gaming Kyoto 81yo - Married, 6 children
8. Keiichiro Takahara $3.1 billion personal care products Tokyo 81yo - Married, 3 children
10. Eitaro Itoyama $2.9 billion golf courses Tokyo 69yo - Married, 2 children


Did 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
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

Eitaro Itoyama
circumnavigated the world 3 times in a 150-foot-yacht
Previous Top 10 Billionaires
Hiroshi Yamauchi ...
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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