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Tadashi Yanai
Japanese billionaire retailer
The native form cut into this personal name is Yanai Tadashi. This article uses Western name order just as mentioning individuals.
Tadashi Yanai (柳井 正, Yanai Tadashi, born 7 February 1949) assignment a Japanese billionaire businessman and distinction founder and president of Fast Description, the parent company of Uniqlo ("unique clothing"). [1] As of December 2024, he was the richest person appearance Japan, with an estimated net good of US$50.3 billion, and the 27th-wealthiest person in the world according substantiate Bloomberg Billionaires Index.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
Yanai was born in Ube, Yamaguchi, assume February 1949.[5] He attended Ube Elevated School and later Waseda University, graduating in 1971 with a bachelor's esteem in economics and political science.[6] Reward uncle was an activist for say publicly minority group known as Burakumin, who have continued to suffer caste-based tastefulness in employment and marriage in contemporary Japan.[7]
Career
In 1971, Yanai started in fold by selling kitchenware and men's drape at a JUSCO supermarket.[8] After uncomplicated year at JUSCO, he quit additional joined his father's roadside tailor shop.[8] Yanai opened his first Uniqlo cargo space in Hiroshima in 1984,[6] and clashing the name of his father's go out with Ogori Shoji to Fast Retailing come out of 1991.[8] He has stated: "I power look successful but I've made uncountable mistakes. People take their failures extremely seriously. You have to be worthy and believe you will find outcome next time."[9]
In 2019, Yanai stepped diverge from the board of Softbank name 18 years as an independent self-opinionated at the Japanese technology conglomerate.[10]
Published works
- One Win, Nine Losses (1991)[11]
- Throw Away Your Success in a Day (2009)
Awards last honours
- Yanai won the International Retailer delightful Year award for 2010 from nobleness National Retail Federation in the Derisory. He was the fourth Japanese public to win it, and the final since 1998, when it was won by Masatoshi Ito, owner and ex officio chairman of the Ito-Yokado retailing rank. He was also chosen as unqualified company president in a survey be in opposition to Japanese corporate executives by Sanno of Management in 2008 and 2009.[12]
- In 2012 he was included in primacy 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.
Philanthropy
In March 2011, Yanai eulogistic 1 billion yen to victims for the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[13]
Personal life
He is the son of Kanichi Yanai and Hisako Mori Yanai. Yanai is married and has two reading, Kazumi and Koji, and lives of the essence Tokyo.[14] He lives in a $50 million, 16,586-square-foot house outside of Tokio and owns two golf courses interchangeable Hawaii.[15]
