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Masaomi Nangaku

Masaomi Nangaku (南學正臣) is a Japanese nephrologist and physician-scientist, professor and dean at the University of Tokyo whose research established chronic kidney hypoxia as a pathway to kidney failure.

Masaondi Mound

Masaondi Mound, Ghazipur district, Uttar Pradesh: two ASI centrally protected ancient mound sites, High Khera and Mound of ruins, protected in 1920 under the Sarnath Circle.

Sep 17, 2026

Masaru Emoto (江本勝)

Masaru Emoto (江本勝, 1943–2014), Japanese author, claimed words, music, and prayer change ice crystal beauty via his 1994 Water Crystal Photography; Messages from Water books; criticized for no blinding and no independent replication.

Masaru Furukawa

Masaru Furukawa (古川勝), 1936–1993, Japanese breaststroke swimmer; won 200 m gold at Melbourne 1956 with an underwater technique, set four 200 m world records, and prompted FINA to ban underwater breaststroke.

Sep 17, 2026

Masaru Ibuka (井深大)

Masaru Ibuka (井深大) was a Japanese electronics engineer who co-founded Sony with Akio Morita in 1946, developing Japan's first tape recorder and transistor radio.

Masaru Kanekiyo

Masaru Kanekiyo is a vaccine designer and immunoengineer who leads the Molecular Immunoengineering Section at NIAID's Vaccine Research Center, known for nanoparticle influenza and EBV vaccines.

Masaru Kuno

Masaru K. Kuno, known as Masaru Kuno, is an American materials chemist and professor at the University of Notre Dame who studies semiconductor nanocrystals, nanowires, and perovskite solar cells.

Masaru Taniguchi

Masaru Taniguchi (谷口克) was a Japanese immunologist who identified the invariant antigen receptor of natural killer T cells and was founding director of the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology.

Masaru Yamada

Masaru Yamada (山田優), born 1994 in Toba, Mie, is a Japanese épée fencer, Olympic team gold medalist at Tokyo 2020 and silver medalist at Paris 2024, world No. 2 in 2026.

Masaru Yamaizumi

Masaru Yamaizumi (山泉克) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for a 1978 Cell paper showing that one molecule of diphtheria toxin fragment A kills a cell.

Masashi Abe

Masashi Abe (阿部雅司), born 1965 in Obira, Hokkaido, Japanese Nordic combined skier; 1994 Lillehammer Olympic team gold, 1993 and 1995 world team titles, three Olympics, later national coach and sub-3 marathoner. Distinct from judoka Hifumi Abe and runner Masashi Aiba.

Masashi Hamauzu

Masashi Hamauzu (浜渦正志) is a Japanese composer who scored Final Fantasy XIII and SaGa Frontier 2 during his tenure at Square Enix from 1996 to 2009.

Sep 17, 2026

Masashi Kishimoto

Masashi Kishimoto (岸本斉史), Japanese manga artist and creator of Naruto (Weekly Shonen Jump, 1999–2014, 72 volumes, 200+ million copies in 35 countries); twin brother of mangaka Seishi Kishimoto; supervises Boruto drawn by Mikio Ikemoto; also created Samurai 8.

Masashi Narita

Masashi Narita is a Japan-trained, British-based cell biologist known for identifying senescence-associated heterochromatin foci, and a Senior Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Masashi Sada

Masashi Sada (さだまさし) is a Japanese folk singer-songwriter and novelist born in Nagasaki in 1952, who debuted with the folk duo Grape in 1973 before a solo career.

Sep 20, 2026

Masashi Yanagisawa

Masashi Yanagisawa (柳沢正史), born in 1960, is a Japanese neuroscientist who discovered endothelin and orexin, showed orexin deficiency causes narcolepsy, and directs the sleep institute at the University of Tsukuba.

Masasuke Yoshida

Masasuke Yoshida (吉田賢右) is a Japanese molecular biologist known for filming the rotation of F1-ATPase, the motor part of ATP synthase, in 1997, and for discovering the chaperone ClpB.

Maşat Höyük

Maşat Höyük, identified with the Hittite town of Tapigga (Tapikka), is a settlement mound in Tokat Province, Turkey, known for a palace archive of over 100 cuneiform tablets.

Maşat Höyük letters

The Maşat Höyük letters are a Hittite cuneiform archive from the site of Tapigga in north-central Anatolia, mostly letters dating to the early 14th century BC.

Masataka Nakazawa

Masataka Nakazawa (中沢正隆), born in 1952, is a Japanese optical communications researcher at Tohoku University whose erbium-doped fiber amplifier and soliton transmission work underpin global submarine cables, earning the 2023 Japan Prize.

Masataka Yoshida

Masataka Yoshida (吉田正尚), born 1993 in Fukui, Japan, is a Red Sox outfielder/DH; former Orix Buffaloes star, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist, 2023 WBC champion with a record 13 RBIs, signed for five years and $90 million.

Masatake Haruta

Masatake Haruta (春田正毅) was a Japanese chemist at Tokyo Metropolitan University who founded heterogeneous gold catalysis with his 1987 discovery that gold nanoparticles catalyze CO oxidation.

Masateotl Corona

Masateotl Corona is a 180-km-wide corona on Venus at 53°S, 244°E, named in 2000 for an Aztec goddess of love and fertility; one of hundreds of plume-related volcano-tectonic features mapped by Magellan radar.

Masato Hasegawa

Masato Hasegawa (長谷川成人) is a Japanese neuroscientist at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science whose 2006 work identified TDP-43 as a signature of ALS and frontotemporal degeneration.

Sep 20, 2026

Masato Kasuga

Masato Kasuga (春日雅人), born 1948 in Tokyo, is a Japanese physician-scientist who showed the insulin receptor is a tyrosine kinase and led diabetes research at Kobe University.

Masato Morishita

Masato Morishita (森下暢仁), born 1997 in Oita, is a right-handed pitcher for NPB's Hiroshima Toyo Carp, 2020 Central League Rookie of the Year, and Tokyo 2020 Olympic baseball gold medalist who won the final start against the USA.

Masato Sagawa

Masato Sagawa (佐川眞人), born 1943 in Tokushima, Japan, is a Japanese materials scientist who invented the sintered Nd-Fe-B permanent magnet in 1982, now used in electric-vehicle motors and wind turbines.

Masato Shimon

Masato Shimon (子門真人) was a Japanese singer of anime and tokusatsu theme songs, born in Tokyo in 1944, whose 1975 single "Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun" remains Japan's best-selling single.

Masato Uchishiba

Masato Uchishiba (内柴正人), Japanese judoka, double Olympic gold medalist in men's 66 kg half-lightweight at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008; later convicted of raping a student he coached and sentenced to five years in prison.