A Japanese entrepreneur who made a fortune from an internet company later hit by fraud allegations will visit the International Space Station in September, it was announced today.

Daisuke Enomoto, who likes to be known as 'Dice-K', hopes to make the trip in a suit modeled on a character from the popular Japanese anime series, Gundam.

US company Space Adventures organised Enomoto's trip in cooperation with the Russian Federal Space Agency which will take Enomoto aloft in a Soyuz spacecraft.

Space Adventures did not disclose the fee agreed for the trip, but the three previous private visitors to the International Space Station were reported as paying sums approaching $20m.

The company said that 34 year-old Enomoto would go to Russia to commence training but did not say whether his Gundam suit had been approved by Russian space authorities.

According to his website, Enomoto is cooperating with various Japanese companies, including Seiko, which will design a special watch for his trip, and toy maker Bandai, which is assisting with the Gundam suit design.

Venture capitalist Enomoto made much of his fortune from Livedoor, a Japanese internet investment company which became embroiled in an accounting scandal this year, resulting in fraud charges against its founder and the suicide of a brokerage executive. Enomoto, Livedoor's former chief strategic officer, left the company in 2003.

In the long-running Gundam animated series, characters do battle in gigantic robot suits. Enomoto reportedly plans to base his suit on the anti-hero Char Aznable, described by some sources as akin to Darth Vader from the Star Wars series.

A picture on his website appears to show a potential suit design.