I remember a long time ago that Rumiko Takahashi was sixth for being one of the richest people there. Don't know exactly when.

The richest people in Japan all live in NYC.

I think she was the richest japanese woman in japan. As much as i liked her mangas ranma and maison ikkoku, i didn't like inuyasha.

its probably

Mr. Sony
Mr. Yamaha
Mr. Toyota
Mr. Honda
Mr. Kawasaki
Mr. Panasonic

I think she was the richest japanese woman in japan. As much as i liked her mangas ranma and maison ikkoku, i didn't like inuyasha.

Some of the richest people in japan are ethnic Korean!
Koreans are very successful almost everywhere their at.

TOP 10 - Japan's Richest People ... (9 March 2006) ... Wealth in USD$
Name Wealth Source Residence Personal
1. Yasuo Takei & family $5.4 billion Takefuji (consumer finance) Tokyo 76yo - Married, 3 children
2. Kunio Busujima & family $5.2 billion pinball machines (manufacturing) Kiryu 80yo - Married, 4 children
3. Nobutada Saji & family $4.7 billion Suntory (beverages) - recently engineered the world's first blue rose! Hyogo 60yo - Married
4. Akira Mori $4.5 billion Mori Trust (real estate) Tokyo 68yo - Married, 3 children
5. Eitaro Itoyama $4.2 billion golf courses Tokyo 63yo - Married, 2 children
6. Tadashi Yanai & family $4.2 billion retail Yamaguchi 57yo - Married, 2 children
7. Masatoshi Ito $3.6 billion retail Tokyo 81yo - Married, 3 children
8. Yo$hitaka Fukuda & family $3.2 billion Aiful (consumer finance) Kyoto 58yo - Married, 3 children
9. Masayoshi Son $3.1 billion Softbank (software) Tokyo 48yo - Married, 2 children
10. Hiroshi Mikitani $3.0 billion e-commerce (Rakuten Internet shopping mall) Japan 41yo - n/a, 0 children
However according to Ino, Masayoshi Son is worth $7 billion.

its probably

Mr. Sony
Mr. Yamaha
Mr. Toyota
Mr. Honda
Mr. Kawasaki
Mr. Panasonic

lol...
1. Yasuo Takei & family $5.4 billion Takefuji (consumer finance) Tokyo 76yo - Married, 3 children
2. Kunio Busujima & family $5.2 billion pinball machines (manufacturing) Kiryu 80yo - Married, 4 children
8. Yo$hitaka Fukuda & family $3.2 billion Aiful (consumer finance) Kyoto 58yo - Married, 3 children
9. Masayoshi Son $3.1 billion Softbank (software) Tokyo 48yo - Married, 2 children

at least these 4 people are all zainichi koreans. even though population of zainichi korean is 1 million.
Mr. Toyota is 35th richest man in japan. http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/73/LQPN.html
Mr. Sony is #22 http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/73/N0LK.html

Japan's Rising Son, Newsweek International, January 1, 2000

Son long ago learned how to be positive in the face of adversity. An ethnic Korean in a country where outsiders are treated as outcasts, Son started breaking the mold as a young boy. He began his journey in a squatter camp on Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island. Most of the 60-odd families who lived in the hamlet were descendants of Koreans once conscripted as forced labor. They raised pigs and did menial labor; few other occupations were open to Koreans. Settlers mixed little with their Japanese neighbors and suffered constant discrimination. "The Korean kids smelled like a pigpen," says a middle-aged salaryman who grew up nearby. "We used to yell, 'Hey, Koreans,' and throw stones at each other." Like most families, the Sons used a fake surname Yasumoto in an attempt to pass for Japanese.

But Son got lucky. Thanks to his father's budding Pach!nko-parlor business, the clan moved into town and pursued Japan's middle-class dream: education. Taizo, the youngest of four boys, who owns an e-business consulting company called Indigo, recalls his father's way of instilling confidence in his children: "He would sit me on his knee, stroke my head and repeat, 'Taizo is a genius'." The second oldest, Masayoshi, tested into one of Japan's best high schools, in nearby Fukuoka. He quit in six months and, with his father's reluctant blessing, went to study in the United States. "[Son] told me: 'Even if I attend a top Japanese university, I won't be able to get a good job here because I'm Korean'," recalls Itsuo Abe, his homeroom teacher. "I said, 'If they don't want to accept me, that's fine'," remembers Son. " 'I'm going to prove that a human is a human, and that any human with a passion and intelligence can be equal.' That was good motivation to fight harder."

In the free environment of California, Masayoshi Yasumoto decided he no longer had to pretend to be Japanese. "After he left, he wrote me a letter and another to the entire school, saying he was Son, not Yasumoto," Abe told NEWSWEEK. "His explanation was that he needed to use his real name to simplify paperwork, but my impression was that he was freeing himself from an old burden." After high school and a stint at Holy Names College in Oakland, Son earned an economics degree from the University of California, Berkeley. On the side, he imported Space Invader videogames from his father and invented a translation machine that he later sold to Japanese electronics maker Sharp for $1 million. Recalls Berkeley physics professor emeritus Forrest Mozer: "I remember telling my wife, 'We should grab onto that guy because he's going to own all of Japan in 10 years'."
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=12404307

Korean Nukes Linked to Japanese Pinball　December 4, 2006
Pach!nko, a form of pinball deeply loved in Japan, is an industry largely run by ethnic Koreans, and experts have long believed the revenue to be a vital source of hard currency for the impoverished regime in North Korea.

Now, as Kim Jong Il's nuclear weapons program gathers pace, Japan's attitude is hardening, and that includes shutting out the ferry on which money is believed to be hand-carried from Japan to North Korea.

The machines rake in more than $200 billion a year, some of which finds its way to North Korea. Official figures put the total of remittances from sources in Japan at $25.5 million, but the bookkeeping is murky and some think the sum is closer to $850 million a year. No one knows how much of it comes directly from Pach!nko.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/a...-news-a_section

It shows that zainichi are able to move advance socially, while if you look at South Korea, most ethnic minorities face discrimination and uanble to move up socially.