Inside Japan’s FinTwit: www9945, the Janitor Who Turned a ¥3M Salary into ¥630M

In Part 1, I show how www9945 used his Peter Lynch inspired street-corner watching style to grow his meager janitor salary into a fortune

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The US doesn’t have a monopoly on superstar investors with cult-like followings on X (formerly Twitter).

Japan boasts its own legion of market wizards, and in this three-part series, I’ll dissect the strategies and influence of the country’s most famous retail investors, who are arguably its very best.

The three titans I will profile are www9945, Mikimaru (みきまる), and Kabu1000 (かぶ1000). Each embodies a different facet of the retail-investing ethos, from the art of hunting shareholder perks to the grit of building a fortune on a janitor’s salary.

I begin with the man who best exemplifies the rags to riches side of Japanese retail investing:

www9945, a self-made legend who turned life’s humblest start into an investing fortune