Yasumitsu Shigeta

$5.48B

as of 10/04/24

About Yasumitsu Shigeta

Yasumitsu Shigeta is the chairman of Tokyo-listed Hikari Tsushin, which sells mobile phones at its HIT Shop chain of stores.

The company also sells insurance and office equipment.

He founded Hikari Tsushin in 1988.

The dotcom crash in 2001 wiped out much of his fortune.

He rejoined the Forbes World Billionaires list in 2005 when shares of Hikari Tsushin rebounded.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Japan

Source of wealth

mobile phone retailer

Residence

Tokyo, Japan

Marital status

Married

Birth date

02/25/65 (age 59)

Number of children

Education

Drop Out, Nihon University

Self-made

self-made

Yasumitsu Shigeta’s fortune is worth

91K

troy ounces of gold

84K

median U.S. household

55K

median U.S. income

0.11%

U.S. credit card volume

0.022%

GDP of the United States

0.016%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

TOKYO | 9435-JP

Hikari Tsushin Inc.

TOKYO | 4686-JP

Justsystems Corp.