00:00From manga to games and beyond, the global Japanese culture boom has created a class of
00:05billionaires from the country. Take Nobuhiro Oga and his family for example, who are among the
00:11richest on our list, presiding over a globally influential publishing empire. They own space
00:16in Shueisha and Hyogakkan, the publishers best known for manga series like Naruto and Demon Slayer.
00:23The family's net worth is $5.1 billion. Then there's Kyoko Nakamura and family.
00:29Their conglomerate Bandai Namco is behind hugely popular forms of entertainment like Pac-Man
00:35and Tamagotchi and their net worth stands at $1.5 billion. And for old-school arcade fans out there
00:42who remember Konami's Dance Dance Revolution, its founder Kagemasa Kozuki has a net worth of $3.6
00:48billion. He's built Konami into a video game giant valued at nearly $20 billion. Japan's content
00:56exports leached about $38 billion in 2020 sleep, surpassing the semiconductor industry and becoming
01:03the second largest exporter after the automotive sector. That and the tycoons in Bloomberg's first
01:08ever Japanese rich list illustrate the glowing economic heft of the country's culture and how
01:14Japan has turned its software influence into one of its most lucrative exports.
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