2024
Japan’s 50 Richest
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EDITED BY NAAZNEEN KARMALI
MAY 28, 2024, 06:00 PM
- Overseas investors, led by Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway has poured billions of dollars into Japan, helped propel the Nikkei 225 benchmark stock index to a 35-year high. But those gains were partly erased as the land of the rising sun became the land of the sliding yen, which fell 15% since we last measured the net worths of the country’s richest. As a result, collective wealth was up just over 4% to $200 billion.
The Full List
- NAMENET WORTHINDUSTRY1Tadashi Yanai & family$38 BFashion & Retail2Masayoshi Son$27 BFinance & Investments3Takemitsu Takizaki$21 BManufacturing4Nobutada Saji & family$9.3 BFood & Beverage5Sekiya family$7.4 BTechnology6Takahisa Takahara$6.2 BFashion & Retail7Yasumitsu Shigeta$4.2 BTelecom8Akira Mori & family$4.15 BReal Estate9Takao Yasuda$4.1 BFashion & Retail10Masahiro Miki$4.05 BFashion & Retail11Ito siblings$4 BFashion & Retail12Hideyuki Busujima & family$3.85 BGambling & Casinos13Akio Nitori$3.8 BFashion & Retail14Hiroshi Mikitani$3.5 BFashion & Retail15Shigenobu Nagamori$3.4 BManufacturing16Masahiro Noda$3.3 BTechnology17Uchiyama family$3.2 BManufacturing18Yuji Otsuka & family$3.1 BTechnology19Kentaro Ogawa$2.5 BFood & Beverage20Yozo Shimano & family$2.4 BManufacturing21Yoshiko Mori$2.2 BReal Estate22Katsumi Tada$2 BReal Estate23Masateru Uno & family$1.9 BFashion & Retail24Kobayashi brothers$1.85 BFashion & Retail25Yoichi & Keiko Erikawa$1.8 BMedia & Entertainment26Kagemasa Kozuki$1.75 BMedia & Entertainment27Toshio Motoya$1.7 BService28Tada brothers$1.6 BFashion & Retail29Kinoshita family$1.55 BFinance & Investments30Yasuhiro Fukushima$1.51 BMedia & Entertainment31Masaaki Arai$1.5 BReal Estate32Hisao Nagata$1.45 BFashion & Retail33Nobutoshi Shimamura$1.41 BFashion & Retail34Yoshio Tsuchiya & family$1.4 BFashion & Retail35Yoshiaki Yoshida$1.37 BFashion & Retail36Yusaku Maezawa$1.35 BTechnology37Fumio Kaneko$1.3 BService38Keiichi Shibahara$1.22 BHealthcare39Hiroshi Ishibashi$1.2 BAutomotive40Chizuko & Michio Matsui$1.16 BFinance & Investments41Shunsaku Sagami$1.15 BFinance & Investments42Kazumi Iida & family$1.14 BConstruction & Engineering43Yasuhide Uno$1.13 BTechnology44Shigefumi Wada$1.12 BTechnology45Eiichi Kuriwada$1.11 BLogistics46Tadako Nakatani$1.1 BHealthcare47Hajime Satomi$1.06 BGambling & Casinos48Kenzo Tsujimoto$1.05 BMedia & Entertainment49Takaya Awata$1 BFood & Beverage50Ryuji Arai$980 MFashion & Retail
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