Ryuho Okawa is one of the most popular and richest Sociologist who was born on July 7, 1956 in Yoshinogawa, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan.
After graduating from the University of Tokyo, he joined a Tokyo-based trading house. While working at its New York headquarters in 1982-1983, he studied finance at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In 1986, he resigned his business career and started Happy Science.
Okawa was the target of an assassination attempt by Aum Shinrikyo in January 1995 using VX agent.
