Who is the wealthiest person in Japan?
- Masayoshi Son; $21.1 billion.
- Nobutada Saji; $9.3 billion.
- Takahisa Takahara; $6.4 billion.
- Shigenobu Nagamori; $4.6 billion.
- Hiroshi Mikitani; $4.4 billion.
- Masatoshi Ito; $4.35 billion.
- Hideyuki Busujima; $4.2 billion.
- Masahiro Noda; $3.5 billion.
| Country | # of Billionaires | Billionaires per 1M people |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 49 | 0.207 |
| Taiwan | 47 | 1.529 |
| Australia | 44 | 1.203 |
| South Korea | 43 | 0.54 |
Adults with 100 thousand to one million U.S. dollars in wealth made up around 53 percent of the Japanese population in 2020, while the second largest share of people were worth between 10,000 and 100,000 dollars. Together, these groups accounted for approximately 86 percent of the population.
2018 Japan's 50 Richest Net Worth
Yoshiko Shinohara became Japan's first self-made female billionaire in early 2017. She founded Temp Holdings, a temporary staffing company, in 1973 after a stint as a secretary. Shinohara, who owns an 11% stake in the firm, retired from her longtime position as chairman in April 2016.
About 953,000 households, or 1.8% of Japan's total, can be classified as affluent—with savings, property and other assets valued at ¥100–500 million. In addition, some 54,000 households worth more than ¥500 million account for the rarefied 0.1% super-affluent sector of society.
The third-wealthiest country in Asia is Japan, with just over $5.3 trillion. Japan's great strength is its highly developed technology sector, which helps the "Land of the Rising Sun" rank as one of the most innovative countries in the entire world.
The American business magazine Forbes produces a global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year and updates an Internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916.
Simply stated, a billionaire is a person who has a net worth of $1 billion or more. In other words, if you can sell all of your assets for cash, pay off your debts, and have $1 billion remaining in the bank afterward, you are a billionaire.
Japan was considered as a country rich in precious metals, mainly owing to Marco Polo's accounts of gilded temples and palaces, but also due to the relative abundance of surface ores characteristic of a massive huge volcanic country, before large-scale deep-mining became possible in Industrial times.
Would I be rich in Japan?
Those numbers are an annual income of at least 30 million yen (roughly $271,000 USD), and a total net worth of at least 100 million yen (roughly $904,000 USD). So that's what is considered “rich” at the high end in Japan.
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Mitsui family.
| Mitsui family 三井家 | |
|---|---|
| Ruled until | 1946 (zaibatsu dissolved) |
Japan: 3.5% of the population
In 2020, 3,662,000 millionaires lived in Japan, 390,000 more than in 2019. That means 3.5% of the population hold millionaire status and 6.5% of the world's wealthiest people live in the country.
Meet world's youngest self-made billionaire Alexandr Wang. He dropped out of college at 19.
Comparatively, there were 30 billionaires in Tokyo in 2019.
