Yasumitsu Shigeta & family
ACTUAL TIME TOTAL ASSETS– since 4/29/17
$ 2.7 B.
Shigeta is Chief Executive Officer of Tokyo-listed Hikari Tsushin, which markets cellphones at its HIT Store chain of shops.
The business likewise markets and also workplace tools.
He started Hikari Tsushin in 1988.
His riches came to a head at $42 billion prior to the dotcom accident in 2001 eliminated a lot of his ton of money.
He rejoined the Forbes billionaires checklist in 2005 when shares of Hikari Tsushin .
Primary Position: Chairman and CEO, Hikari Tsushin
Native of Japan, Shigeta dropped out of Nihon University after three months in 1985 and started selling telephones for a local retailer. In 1988, at the age of 22, Shigeta founded Hikari Tsushin, a mobile phone distributor, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company was listed on Jasdaq in February 1996 and subsequently on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in April 1999. Shigeta earned his first billion in 1999 and by December of that year, he was worth about $25 billion.
Source:
1.Forbes