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") is a Japanese

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

. It is also romanized as Muto, Mutoh or Mutou. *

Mutou Valley Mutou Valley is located in the Flaming Mountains, near the ancient oasis city of Gaochang on the rim of the Taklamakan Desert in the Xinjiang, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China. Under a cliff in the Mutou Valley is located the Bezeklik Caves, Beze ...

- valley in the

Flaming Mountains The Flaming Mountains () or Huoyan Mountains, are barren, eroded, red sandstone hills in the Tian Shan of Xinjiang. They lie near the northern rim of the Taklamakan Desert and east of the city of Turpan. Their striking gullies and trenches caused b ...

People

Adam Muto Adam Muto (born July 19, 1980) is an American writer, director, storyboard artist, animator, and producer known for his work as the executive producer and showrunner of the animated television series ''Adventure Time''. Career Muto was a classma ...

, American animator. * Akira Mutō, chief of staff of the 14th Area Army. *

Ayami Mutō is a Japanese idol, singer, and model. She was represented by Amuse, Inc. from 2004 to 2015, and has been a member of three musical groups formed by the company: Karen Girl's, Sakura Gakuin, and its first sub-unit Twinklestars. Biography Mut ...

, singer. *

Azumi Muto was a pin-up model and aspiring actress for an agency in Tokyo, Japan. She was murdered by her 21-year-old brother (born 1985) on December 30, 2006. Her death aroused the tabloids' notice for the circumstances surrounding the crime. Life and ...

, actress. *, Japanese businesswoman. *

Kaneyoshi Muto was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace known for his great skill in fighter aircraft. Fellow ace Saburō Sakai called him "a genius in the air." Second Sino-Japanese War Kaneyoshi Muto was born to a humble farming family in June 1916 in Ai ...

, Japanese fighter ace in World War II. *

Hideki Mutoh is a Japanese race car driver from Tokyo currently racing in Super GT. Career History He began karting at age 12 in 1996 and quickly moved through the ranks, becoming a part of Honda's Formula Dream Project. He moved to Europe in 1998 to ...

, race car driver currently racing in the

Super GT Super GT (stylized as SUPER GT) is a grand touring car racing series that began in 1993. Launched as the , generally referred to as either the JGTC or the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship, the series was renamed to Super GT in 2005. It is ...

series. * Joe Muto, television producer. *

Keiji Muto is a Japanese professional wrestler and professional wrestling executive currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion. He is best known for his work as in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Ne ...

, pro-wrestler. * Masatoshi Muto, Japanese diplomat. *

Nobuyoshi Mutō '' Gensui'' Baron was Commander of the Kwantung Army in 1933, Japanese ambassador to Manchukuo, and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army. Biography Mutō was born in an ex''-samurai'' family from Saga Domain. After graduating from th ...

, general. * Toshiro Muto, Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan. * Yoshinori Muto, association football player. *, Japanese baseball player. *, Japanese footballer. *, Japanese footballer.

Fictional characters

*Akio Mutou, science teacher in the visual novel

Katawa Shoujo is a bishōjo-style visual novel by Four Leaf Studios that tells the story of a young man and five young women living with varying disabilities. The game uses a traditional text and sprite-based visual novel model with an ADV-style text box ru ...

. *Ashirogi Muto of ''

Bakuman is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for '' Death Note''. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from August 2 ...

''. *Kaname Muto of '' Yahiko no Sakabato''. * Kazuki Muto of ''Buso Renkin''. *Kenji, Shizuka, and Yuki Muto of Lian Hearn's ''

Tales of the Otori Tales of the Otori is a series of historical fantasy novels by Gillian Rubinstein, writing under the pen name Lian Hearn, set in a fictional world based on feudal Japan. The series initially consisted of a trilogy: '' Across the Nightingale ...

'' trilogy. * Nobuyushi Muto *Rikako Muto, female lead from the anime

Ocean Waves In fluid dynamics, a wind wave, water wave, or wind-generated water wave, is a surface wave that occurs on the free surface of bodies of water as a result from the wind blowing over the water surface. The contact distance in the direction o ...

. *Yugi and Sugoroku Mutou of ''

Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuki Takahashi. It was serialized in Shueisha's ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' magazine between September 1996 and March 2004. The plot follows the story of a boy named Yugi Mutou, w ...

''. * MUTO, an acronym for "Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism", a species of kaiju featured in the 2014 film ''Godzilla''.

Others

* Mutoh Europe nv, electronics company. *''

Dr. Muto ''Dr. Muto'' is a 2002 platform game developed and published by Midway Games. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox (console), Xbox on November 11, 2002 and later released for the GameCube on December 17, 2002. An entirely different game ...

'', video game.

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