Billionaire Taizo Son ditches Japan to move to Singapore, plans $100m for SEA startups

Billionaire Taizo Son ditches Japan to move to Singapore, plans $100m for SEA startups

Taizo Son. Photo: Bloomberg

Taizo Son, who built his fortune on hit smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, has relocated to the city-state from Tokyo and plans to invest $100 million in Southeast Asia within five years. The younger brother of SoftBank Group Corp.’s founder said in Singapore on Monday he’d become frustrated by regulation in Japan as well as the country’s education system.

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