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Article: MODEST WEALTH QUIET, UNPRETENTIOUS, HE'S RICHEST IN WORLD.(Business)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- August 1, 1991
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Byline: Dan Biers Associated Press
The tip-off that Taikichiro Mori is the world's richest person is not in his lifestyle. After all, there's not much glamorous about slurping noodles for lunch in an office strewn with document-stuffed shopping bags.
The tip-off is the dozens of buildings in downtown Tokyo that bear his name - the foundation of the real estate empire that, according to Forbes magazine, makes the 87-year-old tycoon worth an estimated $15 billion.
That's roughly equivalent to the combined 1987 national budgets of Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia.
"I was thankful, but I felt uncomfortable," Mori said of the ...