<figure id="attachment_310482" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-310482" style="width: 6000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="71863169"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/05/OGA09579.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-310482" class="wp-caption-text">In &#8220;Blue Hills. He reflected on his tumultuous life.</figcaption></figure>
 I&#8217;m at a loss as to what to do with the money I&#8217;m making right now. Frankly, I have no use for it (laughs).&#8221;
 Yuta Misaki, 34, who was interviewed in a room of an ultra-luxury condominium, commonly called &#8220;Aojiru Hills,&#8221; located in a quiet residential area in Shibuya, Tokyo, laughed as he said so.
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 Mr. Misaki&#8217;s &#8220;Sukkiri Fruits Aojiru&#8221; (refreshing fruit aojiru), launched in 2005, was an explosive hit, and he became the &#8220;Aojiru Oji&#8221; (Prince of Aojiru). In February 2007, he was suddenly arrested by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on suspicion of tax evasion amounting to 180 million yen.
 When I was arrested by the Special Investigation Bureau, I was at rock bottom. I had never been so devastated in my life. All I heard from the world was ridicule. The world was crueler than I had imagined.
 I started social networking to prove the truth. I don&#8217;t think I would have become a YouTube star without that arrest. That&#8217;s how big an event it was in my life.&#8221;
 Misaki has since made a comeback as an influencer, but he says he faced a series of hardships when he first launched his channel.
 I had to constantly upload videos, and sometimes it felt like an obsession,&#8221; he said. Now, thanks to the many ideas that come up at planning meetings, we don&#8217;t run out of ideas, but it&#8217;s still hard work to make videos. My current concern is the number of subscribers to my YouTube channel. The current number of subscribers is about 930,000, and I need 70,000 more to reach the one million mark. But that 70,000 is the hard part. When you get to this point, you have to attract a different audience than the one that originally got into the channel, and that&#8217;s where I&#8217;m struggling.
 The resurgent Mr. Misaki has recently been frequently posting his celebrity status on SNS, where he rents out a three-story condominium building, &#8220;Aojiru Hills,&#8221; for approximately 17 million yen. In March of this year, she also published her first photo essay, &#8220;The Beauty of Earning Millions &#8221; (Takarajimasya). How in the world does she make so much money?
 Most of my income now comes from social networking and investments. I have invested in about 10 companies, and the cumulative sales of the companies in which I have invested exceeds 120 billion yen. The total amount of assets fluctuates constantly, but the majority of my assets are in stocks and virtual currency. Frankly, I am paid more as a businessman than on YouTube. However, my probation will be lifted this September, and I have not yet decided whether I will continue with YouTube after that. I would like to continue live broadcasting, but for the time being, I&#8217;m taking it easy and thinking about it.
 One of the ways he uses the extra money he has is to travel abroad, which he enjoys.
 I have been going abroad about once a month recently,&#8221; he says. Last month I went to India. I felt the unimaginable wave of people and the vibrancy of the country. It&#8217;s hard to say, since it varies from country to country, but I would say that the travel expenses for one trip are about several million yen. Even so, I can travel back and forth between New York and Japan about 100 times with just the points on my credit card, so it&#8217;s not easy to spend money (laughs).
 Mr. Misaki has turned from a criminal to a millionaire. In the aforementioned photo essay, he describes his business secrets along with his photographs.
 Recently, I have been asked by many young people, &#8216;How can I become successful like you?&#8217; I wanted to answer that question, even if only a little, so I put my business attitude into words. My personal favorite phrase is &#8220;To do or not to do. It is simple, but I believe that business is all about this.
 In February of this year, Mr. Misaki became a topic of conversation when he confessed on YouTube that he had lost approximately 1 billion yen in virtual currency.
 It&#8217;s the biggest loss I&#8217;ve ever made in investing,&#8221; he said. But now I&#8217;ve recovered that amount with bitcoin. In the end, investments go through cycles, so I made it back by aiming at the right time when the price was going up. That is the amount of money I made the most from my investment. It really is like a roller coaster (laughs).&#8221;
 Perhaps this vitality is the secret of Mr. Misaki&#8217;s success.
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