Tadashi Yanai
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Tadashi Yanai (Yanai Tadashi, born 7 February 1949) is a Japanese billionaire businessman, founder and president of Fast Retailing, of which Uniqlo ("unique clothing") is a subsidiary.
He was ranked as the 31st richest person in the world by Forbes in June 2019 and as Japan's richest man with a reported net worth of US$24.9 billion.
Early life and education
In February 1949, Yanai was born in Ube, Yamachi. He attended Ube High School and Later Waseda University, graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science. His uncle was a member of Burakumin, a minority group in modern Japan who continue to face caste-based discrimination in jobs and marriage.
Personal life
He is the son of Kanichi Yanai and Hisako Mori Yanai. Yanai is married and has two sons, Kazumi and Koji, and lives in Tokyo. He lives in a $50 million, 16,586-square-foot house outside of Tokyo and owns two golf courses in Hawaii.
Career
Yanai started trading in 1971 by selling kitchenware and men's clothing at a JUSCO supermarket. After a year in JUSCO, he resigned and joined his father's roadside tailor shop. In 1984, Yanai opened his first Uniqlo store in Hiroshima and changed the name of his father's business Ogori Shoji to Fast Retailing in 1991. "I might be fruitful, but I've made several mistakes," he says. People are also concerned about their failures. You have to be positive and believe you will have a great deal next time."
After 18 years as an independent director at the Japanese technology conglomerate, Yanai resigned from the board of Softbank in 2019.
Awards and honours
- Yanai won the International Retailer of Year award for 2010 from the National Retail Federation in the US. He was the fourth Japanese national to win it, and the first since 1998, when it was won by Masatoshi Ito, owner and honorary chairman of the Ito-Yokado retailing group. He was also chosen as best company president in a survey of Japanese corporate executives by Sanno Institute of Management in 2008 and 2009.
- In 2012 he was included in the 50 Most Influential list of Bloomberg Markets Magazine.