Who is Tadashi Yanai?
Tadashi Yanai is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Fast Retailing, the Japanese company behind the Uniqlo clothing chain. Forbes’ Japan’s 50 Richest list of 9 June 2026 valued him and his family at $65 billion, second in Japan behind SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son, and Forbes’ world list in March ranked him 32nd with $61.8 billion 12.
How did Tadashi Yanai make his money?
By building Uniqlo into a global clothing retailer. He took over his father’s small menswear business, Ogori Shoji, opened the first Uniqlo store in Hiroshima in 1984 and renamed the company Fast Retailing in 1991. MarketScreener lists his personal holding at 19.29% of Fast Retailing, while Celebrity Net Worth says his fortune counts the shares of his wife and two sons too 34568.
Early life and education
Yanai was born on 7 February 1949 in Ube, Yamaguchi, the son of Kanichi Yanai and Hisako Mori Yanai. He went to Ube High School and graduated from Waseda University in 1971 with a degree in economics and political science 347.
Fast Retailing
He is chairman and president of Fast Retailing and chairman of its Uniqlo and G.U. units, according to MarketScreener. Read Tadashi Yanai’s companies 8.
Family and giving
He is married to Teruyo Nagaoka and has two sons, Kazumi and Koji, and he lives in Tokyo. In March 2011 he donated 1 billion yen to victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and in 2018 his son Koji launched the Tokyo Toilet Project, which became the basis for the film Perfect Days 359.
Tadashi Yanai net worth
Forbes put him at $65 billion in June 2026, about ₹6.1 lakh crore at ₹94 to the dollar, up from $45.1 billion at the start of 2025 110. See Tadashi Yanai net worth and our ranking of the top 50 richest people in the world.