Even though the world economy is being hit by a crisis due to the corona virus or Covid-19. There are three Japanese Businessmen who are still very rich and have abundant wealth. They also acquire wealth in very different ways. Who are they?
Quoting from celebritynetworth, Thursday (13/5/2021) here are the three:
1. Takemitsu Takizaki (US$32 billion)
Takemitsu Takizaki is the founder of Keyence, a company that creates sensors, barcode readers, vision systems, digital microscopes, and other electronic components for factory automation systems.
Keyence only specializes in product planning and development and does not manufacture the final product.
Takizaki founded the company in 1974 and since then, Keyence has developed and built a large number of technology patents from his large investment in R&D. Toyota and Toshiba use Keyence products. Takemitsu Takizaki owns 26 shares of the company.
2. Masayoshi Son (US$34.9 billion)
Currently, Masayoshi Son is known as the founder and CEO of SoftBank Capital.
Son is also the CEO of SoftBank Mobile. He graduated from Berkeley with a BA in economics in 1980. One year after graduating, he formed the Japanese telecommunications and Internet company SoftBank.
The Tokyo-based company has company profiles that include a variety of other companies such as Japanese broadband company SoftBank BB, data center company IDC Frontier, gaming company GungHo Online Entertainment, and publishing company SoftBank Creative.
SoftBank also has various partnerships with Japanese subsidiaries such as Yahoo !, E-Trade, Ustream.tv, EF Education First, and Morningstar.
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