He’s definitely banking with those dinner shows. I was more referring to how most of X Japan’s music royalties and licensing deals goes to Yoshiki, or one of his companies, since he wrote most of the songs and manages the brand.
Post reunion, the members had contracts and made very little from all of those Tokyo Dome shows and world tour that they did. Which is why Heath had contract issues in 2010 and eventually Toshi.
Toshi could walk away from something as big as X Japan, which also saved him from his cult existence, because it simply made no financial sense for the amount of effort he put into it
So yeah, Yoshiki and all of his endeavors never ceases to amaze me.
it really is depressing to think about. You’d think the king’d let his former bandmates have a bigger share since he’s obviously loaded to the brim already.
I don’t see why when squatters were brought up, the conversation immediately got derailed into his wealth. His wealth is obvious. Squatters should absolutely not be allowed to just stay and the idea that we can even entertain these people’s presence as anything but a problem because he has money to spare is ludicrous.
If I owned multiple houses I would rent them out, but if I’m renting out a (presumably) nice house then that house needs to be maintained until it’s rented out. Which squatters inhibit. It also needs to come with a reasonable expectation of safety. Making squatters a clear threat
Before anyone eats me up for being elitist, I was homeless for a while. Granted I was a child but I’m still young enough (20) to remember it clearly and know the struggle. I’m also familiar with certain people that were beyond “down on their luck” and were bad company at best, actively dangerous at worst.
It doesn’t have to be rich people either. A middle class person leaving for a week to visit family (not to splurge) could come back to find their house with a stranger and not have adequate legal recourse to protect their only home.
Sure i guess, but i wasn’t aware he was a multiple-property landlord, that’s all. I thought he made most of his money owning rights to stuff.
Anyway i feel it’s pretty tone-deaf to talk about how hard it is to be a landlord given the cost-of-living and housing crises around the world (and japan, since the tweet is in japanese). Japanese people HATE all the foreigners who come here to buy multiple properties to rent out, and here we have a japanese celebrity doing the same abroad.
