On January 20, TV personality Hiroto Kiritani, 76, known as “Mr. Kiritani,” an investor who lives solely on shareholder special benefits, updated his own X and developed his own theory on the cup noodle lifestyle. In response to the thumbnail image of a video posted on the official YouTube channel of All About Money, in which he appears, Mr . Kiritani said, “It says ‘cup noodle lifestyle,’ but people who can eat cup noodles (which are quite expensive) are people with money. The thumbnail image shows a person who can eat a cup noodle (very expensive), but he is a person who has money. I have never lived on cup noodles, and when I was 20 years old, I was eating instant noodles for 85 yen for five servings (in the days when there was no consumption tax). Mr. Kiritani, an investor who makes a living 365 days a year from shareholder special benefits and dividends, became a professional Go player at the age of 25 and retired at 57. He started investing in stocks in 1984, at the height of the bubble economy, and experienced the ups and downs of the market, including the bursting of the bubble economy, the IT bubble, and the Lehman Shock. His assets are currently estimated at 700 million yen.
