Kazuo Okada
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Japan
casinos, Self Made
$2,100,000,000
1168
#21 Japan's 50 Richest 2019
#1168 Billionaires 2019
In 2017, Kazuo Okada was sued by his company, Universal Entertainment following an internal investigation after reports of alleged "fraudulent acts." Okada could not be reached for a comment on the charges. Okada founded Universal Entertainment, which manufactures and sells pachinko machines and casino equipment, in 1969. Formerly known as Aruze Corporation, Universal Entertainment trades on the Japan Stock Exchange. An art enthusiast, Okada possesses art from Japan, China and Korea, which are displayed at The Okada Museum of Art in Hakone, Japan.
Okada dropped out of high school to enroll in an engineering vocational school, and later started repairing broken jukeboxes from America.
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