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Billionaire Maezawa Taken To Hospital After Racing Accident: NHK

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa was taken to a hospital after a racing accident, public broadcaster NHK reported.

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Yusaku Maezawa, chief executive officer of Zozo Inc., attends a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018. Japanese billionaire Maezawa said working less, not more, is his secret to building a $8.4 billion company, becoming a major force in the art world and landing a ticket on Elon Musk’s rocket to the moon. The founder of Japan’s second-largest online shopping site Zozo was introduced last month as the first passenger on a flight to the moon scheduled for 2023, on a rocket built by Space Explorations Technologies Corp. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa was taken to a hospital after a racing accident, public broadcaster NHK reported.

Maezawa, founder of e-commerce company Zozo Inc, was one of two people taken to a hospital after the accident happened around 2 p.m. Sunday at a race course in Miyagi prefecture in northeastern Japan, according to NHK. 

He was conscious and able to speak, though his exact condition was unclear, the report said, citing an official at the race course.

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