Famous People with Name Masuda

Masuda Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masuda Takashi: was an entrepreneur in Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan, responsible for transforming Mitsui into a zaibatsu through the creation of a general trading company, Mitsui Bussan. He also established a newspaper, the Chugai Shogyo Shimpo (???????), which was later renamed the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.Masuda accompanied Ikeda Nagaoki in the unsuccessful 1863 Second Japanese Embassy to Europe to negotiate the cancellation of the open-port status of Yokohama. On his return he studied English at the Hepburn School (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University).

Keiko Masuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Keiko Masuda: a Japanese pop singer and actress. Well Known as "Kei" of Pink Lady. Pink Lady was the top idol group of the 1970s in Japan. In the United States, they are known for the TV program Pink Lady and Jeff.After Pink Lady broke up in 1981, she continued to perf

Toshio Masuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toshio Masuda: a Japanese film director. He developed a reputation as a consistent box office hit-maker. Over the course of five decades, 16 of his films made the yearly top ten lists at the Japanese box office—a second place record in the industry. Between 1958 and 1968 he directed 52 films for the Nikkatsu Company. He was their top director of action films and worked with the company's top stars, including Yujiro Ishihara with whom he made 25 films. After the breakdown of the studio system, he moved on to a succession of big-budget movies including the American-Japanese co-production Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the science fiction epic Catastrophe 1999: The Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974). He worked on such anime productions as the Space Battleship Yamato series.

Junichi Masuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Junichi Masuda: a Japanese video game music composer. He is best known for his music to the Pokémon series of games. He was also the main composer for the soundtrack of Pulseman, another Game Freak title for the Sega Mega Drive. His music for the games is also used in the Pokémon television series, where it is arranged by Shinji Miyazaki.

Hiroya Masuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hiroya Masuda: a Japanese politician who was Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications from August 2007 to September 2008. Unlike many other members of the Cabinet, he is not a member of the Diet of Japan (parliament). A native of Tokyo, he graduated from the University of Tokyo and served as governor of Iwate Prefecture from 1995 to 2007. While serving as Iwate's governor, Masuda developed a reputation as a reformist by cutting spending through personnel cuts and took the initiative in introducing an industrial waste tax system. Masuda was reappointed as Minister of Internal Affairs when Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda reshuffled the cabinet on August 1, 2008.[1] In the Cabinet of Prime Minister Taro Aso, appointed on September 24, 2008, Masuda was replaced by Kunio Hatoyama.[2]

Chikashi Masuda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Chikashi Masuda: is a Japanese football player currently playing for Montedio Yamagata.