Masao (written: 正雄, 正夫, 正生, 正男, 正郎, 雅雄, 雅央, 雅夫, 雅勇, 雅男, 昌雄, 昌夫, 昌男, 昌朗, 昌郎, 昌大, 政雄, 政夫, 政男, 政於, 征夫, 優夫, 聖雄, 利生, 将雄, 将夫 or 眞男) is a masculine
Japanese given name
in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the pronunciation follows a special set of rules. Because parents when naming children, and foreigners when adoptin ...
. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese philosopher and writer
*, Japanese screenwriter and film director
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese musical arranger
*, Japanese sumo wrestler
*, Japanese sport wrestler
*, Japanese motorcycle racer
*, Japanese general
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Masao Doi
(born 29 March 1948) is a Professor Emeritus at Nagoya University and The University of Tokyo. He is a Fellow of the Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute. In 1976, he introduced a second quantised formalism for studying reaction-diffu ...
, Japanese academic
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese photographer and sculptor
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Inaba Masao
was a Japanese officer during World War II of the Military Affairs Bureau. John Toland, '' The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945'' p 815 Random House New York 1970
In 1945, after the Emperor and his ministers were ...
, Japanese military officer and rebel
*, Japanese activist and academic
*, Japanese triple jumper
*, Japanese photographer
*, Japanese sprinter
*, Japanese actor and film director
*, Japanese professional wrestler
*, Japanese neuroscientist
*, former President of the Republic of China (
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...
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Masao Kanamitsu
Masao Kanamitsu (November 6, 1943, in Kumamoto, Japan – August 17, 2011, in Del Mar, California) was a Japanese-American atmospheric scientist working in the field of data assimilation. His research greatly influenced global and regional climate ...
(1943–2011), Japanese American meteorologist
*, Japanese Go player
*, Japanese primatologist
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese businessman
*, Japanese botanist
*, Japanese sumo wrestler
*, Japanese politician
*, Japanese composer and guitarist
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese theoretical physicist
*, Japanese playwright, writer and poet
*, Japanese printmaker
*, Japanese animator and film producer
*, Japanese general
*, Japanese political scientist and historian
*, Japanese volcanologist
*, Japanese psychiatrist
*, Japanese sociologist
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese conductor
*, Japanese ice hockey player
*, Japanese judoka
*, Japanese cinematographer
*, Japanese general
*, Japanese politician and diplomat
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese boxer
*, Japanese footballer
*, Japanese professional wrestler
*, Japanese World War II flying ace
*, Japanese singer
*, Japanese actor
*, Japanese drifting driver
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Masao Sugimoto (born 1967), Japanese footballer
*, Japanese Go player
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Masao Takada
was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.
Club career
Takada played for Kwangaku Club was consisted of his alma mater Kwansei Gakuin University players and graduates.
National team career
In May 1925, when Takada was ...
, Japanese footballer
*, former President of
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...
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Masao Takahashi
Masao Takahashi (June 24, 1929 – February 14, 2020) was a Canadian judoka, author, coach, and founder of the Takahashi School of Martial Arts (Est. 1969) in Ottawa, Ontario. He was involved in judo for more than 70 years, and was ranked ''hachi ...
(born 1929), Canadian judoka
*, Japanese artistic gymnast
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Masao Takenaka (1925–2006), Japanese theologian
*, Japanese television producer
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Masao Tsuchida
Masao Tsuchida (born 9 September 1953) is a retired male badminton player from Japan. , Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese shogi player
*, Japanese footballer and manager
*, Japanese lyricist, screenwriter and film director
*, Japanese general
*, Japanese jazz musician
*, Japanese anthropologist
*, Japanese photographer
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Masao Yoshida (disambiguation) Masao Yoshida may refer to:
*, Japanese baseball player
*, Japanese nuclear engineer
* , former House of Councillors member for the Niigata at-large district
* Masao Yoshida (flutist) (1915-2003), Japanese musician who studied with André Jaunet
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, multiple people
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