Japan's 40 Richest 
Japan's 40 Richest
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   At least someone is making money these days.
   Japan's retail tycoon Tadashi Yanai, whose Uniqlo stores sell affordable apparel, has added $1.4 billion to his wealth to become Japan's richest person for the first time. He is now worth $6.1 billion and has moved up to No. 1 from No. 6 last year, becoming the fifth person in as many years to take the top spot in Japan.
   Yanai's good fortune aside, most of Japan's richest lost money in the past year as the country slipped into a recession, business confidence hit its lowest level in 34 years, and the Nikkei stock index dropped 45% since its June peak. More ...
  
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   --- Additional reporting by Tim Kelly, Justin Doebele & Kiyoe Minami
  
 
 
  Japan's Richest
  
  Tadashi Yanai
  
  
  
   Tadashi Yanai
   Kunio Busujima
   Hiroshi Yamauchi
   Akira Mori
   Masayoshi Son
   Eitaro Itoyama
   Hiroshi Mikitani
   Nobutada Saji
   Hiroko Takei
   Takemitsu Takizaki
   Masatoshi Ito
   Masahiro Miki
   Kinoshita brothers
   Katsumi Tada
   Kanbei Kokubu
   Ryoichi Jinnai
   Soichiro Fukutake
   Shigenobu Nagamori
   Minoru Mori
   Han Chang-Woo
   Chizuko & Michio Matsui
   Kazuo Okada
   Tetsuro Funai
   Yoshikazu Tanaka
   Yokyu Kanazawa
   Yasuhiro Fukushima
   Akio Nitori
   Nobutoshi Shimamura
   Hajime Satomi
   Shoji Uehara
   Kazuo Inamori
   Tadahiro Yoshida
   Tada brothers
   Yasumitsu Shigeta
   Hirokazu Sugiura
   Minoru & Yuji Otsuka
   Shoichiro Toyoda
   Toichi Takenaka
   Muneaki Masuda
   Kenji Kasahara
  
 
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