List of Japanese people by net worth

This list shows the richest Japanese citizens by net worth, based on the list published by Forbes annually.

2022

Based on Forbes The World's Billionaires 2022 # Name Age Net Worth Source of Wealth Notes1Tadashi Yanai 73US$26.1 billionFast Retailing2Takemitsu Takizaki76US$23.9 billionKeyence3Masayoshi Son64US$21.3 billionSoftbank4Takahisa Takahara60US$6.4 billionUnicharm5Shigenobu Nagamori77US$5.4 billionNidec6Hiroshi Mikitani60US$5.1 billionRakuten7Masatoshi Ito97US$4.6 billionSeven & I Holdings Co.8Akio Nitori71US$4.0 billionNitori9Akira Mori & family78US$3.7 billionMori Trust10Masahiro Noda83US$3.5 billionObic11Yasumitsu Shigeta57US$3.2 billion12Masahiro Miki59US$3.0 billionABC-Mart12Masateru Uno75US$3.0 billionCosmos Pharmaceutical1472US$2.7 billionDon Quijote15Yoichi & Keiko ErikawaN/AUS$2.5 billionKoei16Katsumi Tada76US$2.4 billionDaito Trust Construction17Masaaki Arai56US$2.1 billionOpen House17Eiichi Kuriwada75US$2.1 billionSagawa Express17Yuji Otsuka68US$2.1 billionOtsuka Corporation20Yusaku Maezawa46US$1.9 billionZozotown

2015

Based on Forbes Japan's Richest 2015 # Name Age Net Worth Source of Wealth Notes1Tadashi Yanai 66US$21.1 billionFast Retailing2Masayoshi Son57US$13.9 billionSoftbank3Nobutada Saji & family69US$10.9 billionSuntory4Hiroshi Mikitani50US$10.5 billionRakuten5Takemitsu Takizaki69US$8.8 billionKeyence6Keiichiro Takahara84US$5.4 billionUnicharm7Han Chang-Woo & family84US$4.9 billionMaruhan8Kunio Busujima & family90US$4.4 billionSankyo9Masatoshi Ito91US$3.8 billionSeven & I Holdings Co.10Akira Mori & family78US$3.8 billionMori Trust11Masahiro Miki59US$3.5 billionABC-Mart12Shigenobu Nagamori70US$3.1 billionNidec13Yoshiko Mori74US$2.8 billionMori Building CompanyThe late Minoru Mori's widow14Yasumitsu Shigeta50US$2.1 billionHikari Tsushin15Kinoshita brothersUS$2.1 billionAcomKyosuke, Shigeyoshi and Katsuhiro Kinoshita1666US$2 billionDon Quijote17Akio Nitori71US$1.9 billionNitori18Naruatsu Baba37US$1.7 billionColopl19Minoru & Yuji OtsukaUS$1.7 billionOtsuka Corporation20Kanazawa brothersUS$1.6 billionSanyo BussanYokyu, Zenkyu and Shinkyu Kanazawa21Hiroko Takei & familyUS$1.6 billionTakefujiThe late Yasuo Takei's widow22Tada brothersUS$1.6 billionSundrugNaoki and Takashi Tada23Yusaku Maezawa39US$1.5 billionZozotown24Kenji Kasahara39US$1.07 billionmixi25Katsumi Tada69US$1.5 billionDaito Trust Construction26Hirokazu Sugiura & family64US$1.4 billionSugi Holdings27Chizuko & Michio MatsuiUS$1.3 billionMatsui Securities28Kazuo Okada & family72US$1.3 billionUniversal Entertainment Corporation29Soichiro Fukutake69US$1.2 billionBenesse30Yoshikazu Tanaka38US$1.1 billionGREE, Inc.47Yoshiyuki Sankai56US$1.1 billionCyberdyne Inc.32Kazuo Inamori & family83US$1.1 billionKyocera33Nobutoshi Shimamura & family89US$1.1 billionShimamura34Shoji Uehara87US$1 billionTaisho Pharmaceutical35Hiroshi Ishibashi68US$980 millionBridgestone36Yoji Sato & family69US$965 millionDynam37Masayuki Ishihara66US$950 millionHeiwa38Hajime Satomi73US$925 millionSega Sammy Holdings39Muneaki Masuda64US$910 millionCulture Convenience Club40Ryoichi Jinnai88US$900 millionPromise41Masahiro Noda76US$870 millionObic42Yasuhiro Fukushima67US$850 millionSquare Enix43Susumu Fujita42US$780 millionCyber Agent44Kagemasa Kozuki74US$750 millionKonami45Yoshitaka Fukuda67US$740 millionAiful46Yoshiko Shinohara80US$680 millionTempstaff47Masatoshi Kumagai51US$670 millionGMO Internet48Satoshi Suzuki61US$650 millionPola49Tetsuro Funai88US$630 millionFunai50Kentaro Ogawa & family66US$600 millionZensho

2013 Based on Forbes Japan's Richest 2013 # Name Age Net Worth Source of Wealth Notes1Masayoshi Son55US$22.3 billionSoftbank2Tadashi Yanai & family64US$15.5 billionFast Retailing3Nobutada Saji & family67US$10.7 billionSuntory4Hiroshi Mikitani50US$6.4 billionRakuten5Kunio Busujima & family88US$5.2 billionSankyo6Akira Mori & family77US$5 billionMori Trust7Takemitsu Takizaki68US$4.7 billionKeyence8Han Chang-Woo & family82US$3.4 billionMaruhan9Keiichiro Takahara82US$3.3 billionUnicharm10Masatoshi Ito89US$2.8 billionSeven & I Holdings Co.11Shoji Uehara84US$2.5 billionTaisho Pharmaceutical12Masahiro Miki57US$2.4 billionABC-Mart13Hiroshi Yamauchi85US$2.1 billionNintendo14Hiroko Takei & familyUS$2 billionTakefujiThe late Yasuo Takei's widow15Yoshikazu Tanaka36US$1.9 billionGREE, Inc.16Yasumitsu Shigeta48US$1.65 billionHikari Tsushin17Kanazawa brothersUS$1.6 billionSanyo Bussan18Kinoshita brothersUS$1.56 billionAcomKyosuke, Shigeyoshi and Katsuhiro Kinoshita19Katsumi Tada68US$1.52 billionDaito Trust Construction20Kazuo Okada & family70US$1.5 billionUniversal Entertainment Corporation21Chizuko & Michio MatsuiUS$1.4 billionMatsui Securities22Minoru & Yuji OtsukaUS$1.34 billionOtsuka Corporation23Shigenobu Nagamori68US$1.3 billionNidec24Tada brothersUS$1.26 billionSundrugNaoki and Takashi Tada25Soichiro Fukutake67US$1.25 billionBenesse26Kagemasa Kozuki72US$1.2 billionKonami27Hajime Satomi71US$1.17 billionSega Sammy Holdings28Ryoichi Jinnai86US$1.1 billionPromise29Takao Yasuda64US$1.08 billionDon Quijote30Kanbee Kokubu & family74US$1.07 billionKokubu31Nobutoshi Shimamura & family87US$1.1 billionShimamura32Akio Nitori69US$1.2 billionNitori33Yoshiko Mori72US$1 billionMori Building CompanyThe late Minoru Mori's widow34Kazuo Inamori & family81US$960 millionKyocera35Masayuki Ishihara & family64US$930 millionHeiwa36Hirokazu Sugiura & family62US$910 millionSugi Holdings37Yoji Sato & family67US$890 millionDynam38Muneaki Masuda62US$850 millionCulture Convenience Club39Hiroshi Ishibashi66US$820 millionBridgestone40Nobuyoshi Fujisawa43US$820 millionJ Trust41Tetsuro Funai86US$750 millionFunai42Yusaku Maezawa37US$740 millionZozotown43Kentaro Ogawa & family65US$730 millionZensho44Yoshitaka Fukuda65US$630 millionAiful45Yasuhiro Fukushima65US$570 millionSquare Enix46Masahiro Noda74US550$ millionObic47Tomoko Namba51US550$ millionDeNA48Eitaro Itoyama71US$500 millionShin Nihon Kanko49Hiroyuki InoueUS$450 millionYamato Kogyo50Shoichiro Toyoda88US$400 millionToyota Motor Corporation

2012 Based on Forbes Japan's Richest 2012 # Name Age Net Worth Source of Wealth Notes1Tadashi Yanai & family63US$10.6 billionFast Retailing2Nobutada Saji & family66US$7.9 billionSuntory3Masayoshi Son54US$6.9 billionSoftbank4Hiroshi Mikitani47US$6.3 billionRakuten5Kunio Busujima & family86US$5.7 billionSankyo6Takemitsu Takizaki66US$4 billionKeyence7Yoshikazu Tanaka35US$3.5 billionGREE, Inc.8Akira Mori & family75US$3.2 billionMori Trust9Keiichiro Takahara81US$2.9 billionUnicharm10Han Chang-Woo & family81US$2.8 billionMaruhan11Hiroshi Yamauchi84US$2.7 billionNintendo12Masatoshi Ito87US$2.6 billionSeven & I Holdings Co.13Eitaro Itoyama69US$2.5 billionShin Nihon Kanko14Masahiro Miki56US$2.4 billionABC-Mart15Hiroko Takei & family70US$2 billionTakefujiThe late Yasuo Takei's widow16Katsumi Tada66US$1.9 billionDaito Trust Construction17Shigenobu Nagamori67US$1.8 billionNidec18Kazuo Okada & family69US$1.6 billionUniversal Entertainment Corporation19Soichiro Fukutake66US$1.5 billionBenesse20Kanazawa brothersUS$1.4 billionSanyo Bussan21Kinoshita brothersUS$1.3 billionAcomKyosuke, Shigeyoshi and Katsuhiro Kinoshita22Ryoichi Jinnai85US$1.25 billionPromise23Akio Nitori68US$1.2 billionNitori24Kanbei Kokubu & family72US$1.18 billionKokubu25Hajime Satomi70US$1.15 billionSega Sammy Holdings26Nobutoshi Shimamura & family86US$1.1 billionShimamura27Minoru & Yuji Otsuka89/59US$1.05 billionOtsuka Corporation28Tetsuro Funai85US$1 billionFunai29Yasumitsu Shigeta47US$990 millionHikari Tsushin30Yusaku Maezawa36US$950 millionZozotown31Kazuo Inamori & family80US$940 millionKyocera32Takao Yasuda62US$930 millionDon Quijote33Chizuko & Michio Matsui57/58US$910 millionMatsui Securities34Tada brothersUS$900 millionSundrugNaoki and Takashi Tada35Muneaki Masuda61US$850 millionCulture Convenience Club36Shoji Uehara84US$800 millionTaisho Pharmaceutical37Hirokazu Sugiura & family60US$740 millionSugi Holdings38Hiroshi Ishibashi63US$670 millionBridgestone39Yasuhiro Fukushima64US$660 millionSquare Enix40Kentaro Ogawa64US$650 millionZensho

2010 Based on Forbes Japan's Richest 2010 # Name Age Net Worth Source of Wealth Notes1Tadashi Yanai60US$9.2 billionFast Retailing2Nobutada Saji64US$8.6 billionSuntory3Akira Mori73US$6.1 billionMori Trust4Masayoshi Son52US$5.6 billionSoftbank5Kunio Busujima84US$5.3 billionSankyo6Hiroshi Mikitani44US$4.7 billionRakuten7Hiroshi Yamauchi82US$3.8 billionNintendo8Eitaro Itoyama67US$3.4 billionShin Nihon Kanko9Takemitsu Takizaki64US$2.9 billionKeyence10Hiroko Takei68US$2.5 billionTakefujiThe late Yasuo Takei's family11Masahiro Miki54US$2.1 billionABC-Mart12Keiichiro Takahara78US$1.95 billionUnicharm13Shigenobu Nagamori65US$1.9 billionNidec14Masatoshi Ito85US$1.85 billionIto-Yokado15Yokyu KanzawaUS$1.8 billionSanyo Bussan16Katsumi Tada64US$1.75 billionDaito Trust Construction17Han Chang-Woo78US$1.7 billionMaruhan18Yoshikazu Tanaka32US$1.6 billionGREE, Inc.19Soichiro Fukutake64US$1.4 billionBenesse20Minoru Mori75US$1.35 billionMori Building Company21Tetsuro Funai83US$1.3 billionFunai Electric22Ryoichi Jinnai83US$1.25 billionPromise23Kanbei Kokubu70US$1.2 billionKokubu24Nobutoshi Shimamura83US$1.1 billionShimamura25Kinoshita brothersUS$1.05 billionAcomKyosuke, Shigeyoshi and Katsuhiro Kinoshita26Kazuo Okada67US$1 billionUniversal Entertainment Corporation27Chizuko & Michio Matsui55/56US$960 millionMatsui Securities28Kazuo Inamori78US$920 millionKyocera29Junichiro Takada73US$900 millionTakata Corporation30Akio Nitori66US$890 millionNitori31Muneaki Masuda59US$800 millionCulture Convenience Club32Hajime Satomi68US$780 millionSega Sammy Holdings33Kenji Kasahara34US$720 millionmixi34Yasuhiro Fukushima62US$710 millionSquare Enix35Tada brothersUS$700 millionSundrugNaoki and Takashi Tada36Minoru & Yuji Otsuka87/56US$690 millionOtsuka Corporation37Takao Yasuda60US$690 millionDon Quijote38Yasumitsu Shigeta44US$660 millionHikari Tsushin39Shoji Uehara82US$640 millionTaisho Pharmaceutical40Shoichiro Toyoda84US$620 millionToyota Motor Corporation

2007 Based on Forbes Japan's Richest 2007 # Name Age Net Worth Source of Wealth Notes1Akira Mori69US$5.5 billionMori Trust2Masayoshi Son49US$5.45 billionSoftbank3Hiroshi Yamauchi79US$4.8 billionNintendo4Kunio Busujima82US$4.3 billionSankyo5Hiroko Takei65US$4 billionTakefujiThe late Yasuo Takei's family6Nobutada Saji61US$3.9 billionSuntory7Eitaro Itoyama65US$3.8 billionShin Nihon Kanko8Tadashi Yanai58US$3.6 billionFast Retailing9Takemitsu Takizaki62US$2.7 billionKeyence10Masatoshi Ito83US$2.6 billionIto-Yokado11Yoshitaka Fukuda59US$2.5 billionAiful12Kinoshita brothersUS$2.37 billionAcomKyosuke, Shigeyoshi and Katsuhiro Kinoshita13Hiroshi Mikitani42US$2.2 billionRakuten14Kazuo Okada64US$2.1 billionAruze15Fukuzo Iwasaki82US$2 billionIwasaki Sangyo16Toichi Takenaka64US$1.9 billionTakenaka Corporation17Masahiro Miki51US$1.8 billionABC-Mart18Kanbei Kokubu68US$1.7 billionKokubu19Ryoichi Jinnai80US$1.4 billionPromise20Yasumitsu Shigeta42US$1.37 billionHikari Tsushin21Tetsuro Funai80US$1.34 billionFunai Electric22Shigenobu Nagamori53US$1.3 billionNidec23Kenshin Oshima59US$1.2 billionSFCG24Minoru & Yuji Otsuka84/53US$1.16 billionOtsuka Corporation25Han Chang-Woo76US$1.16 billionMaruhan26Hajime Satomi65US$1.14 billionSega Sammy Holdings27Soichiro Fukutake61US$1.11 billionBenesse28Tadahiro Yoshida60US$1.1 billionYKK29Chizuko & Michio Matsui52/54US$1.09 billionMatsui Securities30Kazuo Inamori75US$1 billionKyocera31Yasuhiro Fukushima59US$900 millionSquare Enix32Shosuke Idemitsu79US$895 millionIdemitsu Kosan33Shoichiro Toyoda82US$800 millionToyota Motor Corporation34Keiko & Yoichi Erikawa58/56US$780 millionKoei35Yusuke Miyama61US$775 millionLeopalace2136Shoji Uehara79US$770 millionTaisho Pharmaceutical37Ryuji Arai61US$730 millionBic Camera38Nobutoshi Shimamura71US$650 millionShimamura39Etsuko & Gen Fujita77/NAUS$630 millionThe late Den Fujita's family40Akio Nitori63US$610 millionNitori

2006 Based on Forbes Japan's Richest 2006