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by rak111esh 3000 days ago
He was the richest man on earth pre-dotcom bubble for 3 days.

http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/how-softbanks-masay...
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saagarjha 3000 days ago
The Wikipedia page has this interesting piece of trivia about him:

[H]e is the richest man in Japan, despite having the distinction of losing the most money in history (approximately $70bn during the dot com crash of 2000).

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adventured 3000 days ago
By a large margin over Masayoshi Son, the richest in Japan title now goes to Tadashi Yanai of Fast Retailing:

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/tadashi-yana...

After that is Takemitsu Takizaki, of Keyence:

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/takemitsu-ta...

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