PROFILE
KAZUO OKADA
For over 50 years, the company was able to develop and expand its business thanks to its industry benchmark for Pachislot, which in turn has been installed to almost all the Pachislot machines. He later earned the nickname “Casino King of Japan”for his management skills and through shifting his business into Casino.
Ranked 1st in the 1999 Japan’s top Billionaire list.
He was successful in achieving to “raise 100 Billion Yen”by year 2000, without loaning.
And with that fund at hand, together with Steve Wynn through a joint capital investment, he built the first ever Japanese managed Casino Hotel in Las Vegas and Macau.
In 2007, with a total construction cost of 250 Billion Yen and spending 7 years, he also established and managed “Okada Manila”,a huge IR facility in Manila Philippines.
This is the world’s first Casino Hotel that bares a Japanese person’s name.
When it comes to “Casino IR management”, there is no one in Japan who knows as much as he does.
In 2017, the management of Universal Entertainment (hereinafter referred to as "UE Corporation"), a listed company, and the eldest son who held nearly half of the company shares (only by name) engineered a coup d’etat.
Where he is now struggling to return to UE and Okada Manila.
MESSAGE
In 2012, the current president of the UE Corporation, Fujimoto Jun organized a Special Investigation Committee in order to conceal his huge amount of unauthorized remittance of about 3.5 Billion Yen.
3 malicious lawyers comprised of Masaki Michio, Matsuo Sotaro and Miyama Miya, became the Special Investigation Committee and created reports based on falsehood without conducting necessary investigations. They released the false detail, and made me appear as if I am a criminal, deceived my family and people around me, and ousted me from UE Corporation.
Fujimoto was originally the representative of Seta Corporation, however, the company got delisted and was about to go bankrupt, so in 1999, I bought it out through UE Corporation.
Despite being saved by me at that time, he is trying to return the favor through ill will.
After driving me out from the UE Corporation, Fujimoto continued with his sloppy way of management, and brought the UE Corporation’s assets to deficit, and down the drain. Looking at these financial statements, it is clear that Fujimoto and the current management have no management skills both for corporate and for casino. Since my ouster, the company is at an operating loss for nearly 50 Billion yen.
Additionally, despite their lack of authority, they proceeded the negotiation for the settlement with Wynn Company instead of me; which at that time, UE Corporation was the largest shareholder of the said company, and without the regard to the actual situation, what was originally worth more than about 400-600 Billion Yen had only been settled for about 260 Billion yen for the purpose of immediate fund raising.
Furthermore, the current executive of the UE Corporation is receiving an outrageous amount of compensation, and this will likely lead the UE Corporation to bankruptcy. I also believe that the current management system will fail in less than a year.
As the person who established the company and raised it for over 50 years with my heart and soul, I will certainly return as the manager of the company and will bring back "true entertainment" to people from all over the world, making Universal Entertainment the world's best casino company. I am the only one who can do that.
I was unfairly refused participation at the shareholders meeting in June, immediately after being ousted in 2017, but if I attended at that time, I would have made the following remarks.
“I am confident that within 2 years, I will list Universal Entertainment in Hong Kong and have a market capitalization of over 1 Trillion Yen.
I wish to supply for the remaining fund through increase of capital by shouldering it. Also, the Court of the United States has also proved that the Reuter’s report is unfounded so the litigation with Wynn has also arrived to a point for reaching victory.
And in the event of a favorable ruling UE will become the largest shareholder of Wynn and will be able to take control of the management. Through this, Wynn Resorts (having UE as the largest shareholder) will become the 3rd largest Casino Company in the world.”
INTERVIEW
“As a Japanese, I am probably the only person that knows from the bottom up, the casino business; the others [in Japan] are just involved on an investment basis. I am probably the only one with hands-on experience to be able to do that.”
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