was a Japanese
billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
businessman, and the founder and chairman of
Sankyo
is a Japanese company, and one of the three major pachinko machine manufacturers in Japan. Headquartered in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, their corporate slogan is "Good luck, Good life".
It was founded by Kunio Busujima. His son Hideyuki Busujima
Hi ...
, one of the three major
pachinko
is a mechanical game originating in Japan that is used as an arcade game, and much more frequently for gambling. Pachinko fills a niche in Japanese gambling comparable to that of the slot machine in the West as a form of low-stakes, low-st ...
machine makers in Japan.
According to ''Forbes'' in January 2015, he had an estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion. He died in October 2016 at the age of 91.
See also
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List of Japanese by net worth
This list shows the richest Japanese citizens by net worth, based on the list published by ''Forbes'' annually.
2022
''Based on Forbes The World's Billionaires 2022''
2015
''Based on Forbes Japan's Richest 2015''
2013
''Based on Forbes ...
References
External links
Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People
1925 births
2016 deaths
20th-century Japanese businesspeople
21st-century Japanese businesspeople
Japanese billionaires
Japanese company founders
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