Tadashi Yanai

Japanese billionaire retailer

Tadashi Yanai (柳井 正, Yanai Tadashi; born 7 February 1949) is a Japanese billionaire businessman and the founder and president of Fast Retailing, the parent company of Uniqlo ("unique clothing"). As of May 2025, he is the richest person in Japan, with an estimated net worth of US$50.3 billion, and the 28th-wealthiest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Tadashi Yanai (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Feb 7, 1949.¹

Net worth $22.2B (as of 2019, per The World's Billionaires).⁵ Richest people