Source: Crazy Days and Nights

Ever since the married foreign born billionaire who runs an investment bank among other holdings started sleeping with a 20 year old K-pop singer, his company has gone in a downward spiral from which it will not recover.

The singer got him also involved in some crazy scheme that was promoted by her mafia manager.

Yusaku Maezawa
Japanese billionaire, entrepreneur, and art collector. He founded Start Today in 1998 and launched the online fashion retail website Zozotown in 2004, now Japan’s largest. Most recently, Maezawa introduced a custom-fit apparel brand ZOZO and at-home measurement system, the ZOZOSUIT, in 2018.

Yusaku Maezawa: Japanese billionaire cancels search for moon trip ‘life partner’

A Japanese billionaire who was looking for a female “life partner” to accompany him on Space X’s maiden tourist flight round the moon has cancelled his plans.

Fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa invited single women over the age of 20 to apply for a “match-making event”.

Almost 28,000 applied, but on Thursday he said he was experiencing “mixed feelings” and pulled out of the search.

He still plans to make the trip to space in 2023 – without a partner.

In January, the 44-year-old advertised online for women to accompany him to space.

The website featured a list of conditions and criteria, including: they had to be single; over the age of 20; and with an interest in going to space.

Just one woman would be picked, with the process supposed to be turned into a matchmaking documentary called “Full Moon Lovers”.

But on Thursday, he announced on Twitter that he would no longer be looking for a space companion.

“There was a part of me that still had mixed feelings about my participation,” he said in a series of tweets.

“To think that 27,722 women with earnest intentions and courage had used their precious time to apply makes me feel extremely remorseful to conclude and inform everyone [of] this selfish decision of mine.”

The fashion mogul is known to have recently split up from 27-year-old actress Ayame Goriki.

This is not the first time Mr Maezawa, the founder and former CEO of online fashion retailer Zozo, has embarked on an attention-grabbing stunt.

He previously promised to share 100m yen ($925,000; £725,000) between 100 randomly selected people who shared one of his tweets.

“To participate, all you have to do is follow me and RT this tweet,” he said. – Source

Japanese billionaire regrets losing $56.5 million in stock trading

TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – A Japanese billionaire said on Twitter that he had lost 4.4 billion yen (S$56.5 million) by trading stocks amid volatile swings triggered by the pandemic.

In a tweet titled “Deep Regrets,” Yusaku Maezawa, founder and former chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo Inc, said he lost money through day trading – a practice he has failed to master. He expressed regret over the sum he had lost and vowed to recover it through his business.

“I was blinded by the virus-driven market swings and lost 4.4 billion yen through repeated short-term trading of stocks, something I haven’t familiarized myself with,” Mr Maezawa said in the Sunday tweet. “With 4.4 billion yen, how many people could the money have been given out to and saved? There’s no end to this regret.”

The flamboyant Mr Maezawa, who has a net worth of US$3.5 billion (S$4.78 billion) according to Bloomberg-compiled data, is well-known for pulling stunts on Twitter. Earlier this year, Mr Maezawa said he’s looking for female applicants to be his companion on his planned trip to the moon on Elon Musk’s rocket in 2023. He scrapped the plan after facing backlash over the process.

Followers have shown mixed responses to his latest tweet on stock trading, with some showing sympathy and some expressing awe over the extent of the losses. – Source

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