Japan’s real-life Crazy Rich Asians: J-pop stars Namie Amuro and Masaharu Fukuyama make our list of the country’s most swoon-worthy billionaires
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Japan’s real-life Crazy Rich Asians are a pretty reserved bunch. But no amount of being under the radar can hide the fact that they are all extremely wealthy – a fact that everyone already knows. After some substantial digging, we’ve found five Japanese whose net worth can give other Asian elites a run for their money.
Izumi Mori
As fashion editor Carine Roitfeld once said, chic is something one is born with. The statement rings true in the case of half-Japanese, half-Italian-American model Izumi Mori – the granddaughter of famed fashion designer Hanae Mori, one of only two Japanese women who have shown their creations on the runways of New York and Paris. Her unique beauty must have been inspired by her grandmother; she was chosen to walk Hanae’s last Paris show in the early 2000s.
Namie Amuro
Amuro is what you can call a self-made Crazy Rich Asian. Her net worth may reportedly be US$100 million, but this Japanese singer’s beginnings were humble. She got her start at 14 when she joined the pop group Super Monkey’s. But it was her iconic chart-topper Can You Celebrate? released in 1997 that gave her a big break. At the height of her career, she was dubbed the “queen of J-pop”. Her mark in the music industry has even earned her the nickname the “Japanese Madonna”.
Masaharu Fukuyama