Masahiro Miki

Miki founded and owns the majority of discount shoe store chain ABC-Mart.The chain has benefited from the influx of tourists into Japan, especially from China and Southeast Asia. ABC-Mart own U.S. shoe brand LaCrosse, which owns the Danner brand of shoes. A former amateur boxer, Miki founded ABC-Mart in the 1980s.He stepped down as chairman of the publicly-traded company in 2007.