Real Estate

A Japanese Beauty Mogul Is Trying to Sell Her $15 Million Mansion

Akemi Shimomura turned a single salon in Osaka into a multinational empire. Now she’s turning her attention to her own real estate.

The pool was recently retiled at this nearly 8,000-square-foot home.

Source: Engel & Völkers

Akemi Shimomura is a serial beauty entrepreneur whose Tokyo-based Miss Paris Group employs more than a thousand people. Along with her women’s salons and a men’s beauty chain, Dandy House, she has locations in Japan, China, and Singapore.

Two years after founding the Miss Paris chain of vocational beauty schools in 2008, Shimomura decided it was time to buy a vacation house. She chose a roughly 8,000-square-foot home on an acre of land that sits between a fishpond and the Paiko Lagoon, about a 20-minute drive from downtown Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.