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YouTuber Hikaru (5 million subscribers) revealed during a home-visit video with cosmetic surgeon and fellow YouTuber Mikiya Takasu that his executive salary is 8 million yen a month and his total assets are “honestly around 6 billion yen.” The two had also sat down for a roughly 100-minute conversation in a separate video before this shoot, with Takasu imposing a self-rule of “no dirty jokes” while still pressing Hikaru with probing questions. Reactions on 5ch focused less on the sheer size of the numbers than on doubts about whether the figures are even credible, along with concerns that a celebrity with this much publicly known wealth could become a target for crime.
October 6, 2026
On October 5, “Mikiya Takasu” (1.08 million subscribers) posted a video titled “[Collab] I Visited My Close Friend Hikaru’s House and Asked Him All Sorts of Questions.” Visiting the home of “Hikaru” (5 million subscribers) and peppering him with questions, Hikaru laid out specific figures for his executive salary and total assets, and—despite Takasu’s declared “no dirty jokes” rule—held nothing back, even opening up about his number of past partners and his history with adult videos (AV).
Takasu, a cosmetic surgeon who heads the Nagoya branch of Takasu Clinic, has publicly declared himself a fan of Hikaru and has even played a Hikaru-parody character called “Mikiru” on his own channel. This time he was invited to Hikaru’s home for their first face-to-face meeting, and the two reportedly had already talked for about 100 minutes in an earlier Hikaru video before this shoot.
Source: yutura.net / Original article here
What people said
Now he's a target for the tax office.
Serves him right lol
There's no way he doesn't have a tax accountant.
It's pathetic that that's the best reply you've got.
He probably doesn't keep that much cash on hand, and his security's airtight, so if anything he seems like a bad target.
Same, that's exactly why I opened this thread.
I'm sure he's exaggerating, but it's scary because people desperate for money will do anything and don't care about the circumstances.
People have been killed in home invasions over just a few tens of thousands of yen.
Talking publicly about money might rack up views, but it's dangerous.
There are plenty of rich people out there.
Maybe what actually matters is what kind of person they are.
By the way, what company is he even an executive of?
but I'd bet the debts he's not mentioning are pretty substantial too.
The economic climate these past few years has let rich people get even richer without even trying.
Not like you, just drifting through life.
The tax office isn't that lenient. You can't write off just anything — stuff that clearly doesn't qualify won't fly.
That's some poor man's jealousy right there — tastes great with this meal (schadenfreude).
He's just taking a cut of what celebrities used to earn, so who cares.
My total assets are only about 20x my annual income.
Guess I'm just spending too much.
You've gotta get into stocks and investing.
What are you even talking about lmao
Background and Key Points of This Topic
For YouTubers like Hikaru with subscriber counts in the millions, income comes from multiple sources beyond ad revenue, including executive salaries from their own brands, and the figures mentioned in videos are based solely on the person’s own claims with no third-party verification possible. Japan abolished its high-income taxpayer disclosure system (the so-called “Choja Banzuke,” or rich list) in 2005, so there is no external way to confirm an individual’s actual asset scale — which is why the thread includes voices suspecting the numbers are exaggerated. At the same time, robberies carried out by recruits for “yami baito” (shady part-time jobs advertised on social media) have been on the rise in recent years, fueling concern that celebrities who publicly flaunt their wealth could become targets. Notably, the discussion shifted away from whether the numbers themselves are true and toward “the risk of saying this publicly at all” — a reaction pattern characteristic of this kind of wealth-reveal content.
*This article is an excerpt and summary based on the 5ch (Geinou Sports Breaking News+) thread “[YouTuber] Hikaru Reveals to Mikiya Takasu: Executive Salary Is 8 Million Yen a Month, Total Assets “Honestly Around 6 Billion”.”
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