Japan's Highest-Paid Company Executives Aren't Actually Japanese
- Eight of last year’s 10 best-paid bosses hail from overseas
- Former SoftBank COO Arora was No. 1 with $76 million total pay
Nikesh Arora, former president and chief operating officer of SoftBank.
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In Japan, expatriates rule when it comes to the biggest pay packages.
Foreigners held eight of the top 10 spots on Bloomberg’s ranking of the country’s best-paid executives last year. SoftBank Group Corp.’s former Chief Operating Officer Nikesh Arora, whose 8 billion yen ($76 million) package topped the list, hails from India. Joseph DePinto, a director of Seven & i Holdings Co. who came in second, and Ronald Fisher, a director at SoftBank who ranked third, are both Americans.