Portrait of Yasumitsu Shigeta

Rank #681

Yasumitsu Shigeta

Net worth $6.0BB

Mobile phone retailer · Japan

Born
Feb 25, 1965
Age
61
Source
Mobile phone retailer
Residence
Tokyo
Citizenship
Japan
Marital status
Married
Children
3
Education
Drop Out, Nihon University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Yasumitsu Shigeta is chairman of Tokyo-listed Hikari Tsushin, which sells mobile phones and cellular services for major Japanese carriers.
  • The company also supplies electricity and gas to small and mid-size businesses besides selling 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.

Financial assets

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