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, in that order. Nevertheless, when a Japanese name is written in the Roman alphabet, ever since the Meiji era, the official policy has been to cater to Western expecta ...
. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese philosopher and writer
*, Japanese screenwriter and film director
*, Japanese politician
*, 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 1978 and 1979 he wrote a series of papers with Sir Sam Edwards expanding on ...
, 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
John Toland (30 November 167011 March 1722) was an Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pa ...
, 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, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
)
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Masao Kanamitsu Masao Kanamitsu (November 6, 1943, in Kumamoto, Japan – August 17, 2011, in Del Mar, California) was a Japanese and American atmospheric scientist working in the field of data assimilation. His research greatly influenced global and regional clim ...
(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
is a former Japanese football player.
Playing career
Sugimoto was born in Shizuoka on June 26, 1967. After graduating from Juntendo University
is a private university in Japan. Its headquarters are on its campus in Bunkyo, Tokyo, for the ...
(born 1967), Japanese footballer
*, Japanese Go player
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Masao Takada
was a Japanese Association football, football player. He played for Japan national football team, Japan national team.
Club career
Takada played for Kwangaku Club was consisted of his alma mater Kwansei Gakuin University players and graduates.
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, Japanese footballer
*, former President of
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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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
Masao Takenaka (June 9, 1925 – August 17, 2006). was a Japanese theologian who taught for over 40 years at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, where he was a Professor of Christian Ethics and Sociology of Religion..
Takenaka was born in Beijing ...
(1925–2006), Japanese theologian
*, Japanese television producer
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Masao Tsuchida, 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
* ...
, multiple people
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Japanese masculine given names