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Billionaire Taizo Son ditches Japan to start afresh in Singapore

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Published Mon, Apr 17, 2017 · 09:50 PM

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SINGAPORE may have just added a new tech billionaire, but it had to lure him from Japan first.

Taizo Son, who built his fortune on hit smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, has relocated to the city-state from Tokyo and plans to invest US$100 million in South-east Asia within five years.

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