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Masatoshi Koshiba

Masatoshi Koshiba (小柴昌俊) was a Japanese experimental particle physicist at the University of Tokyo who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting cosmic neutrinos.

Masatoshi Makuuchi (幕内雅敏), born 1946, is a Japanese hepatobiliary surgeon and Emeritus Professor of the University of Tokyo who pioneered liver resection techniques and living-donor liver transplantation.

Masatoshi Nei

Masatoshi Nei (1931–2023) was a Japanese-born American population geneticist who founded molecular evolutionary genetics, developed Nei's genetic distance and the neighbor-joining method, and won the 2013 Kyoto Prize.

Oct 10, 2026

Masatoshi Shima

Masatoshi Shima (嶋正利), born 1943 in Shizuoka, Japan, is a computer engineer who designed the logic of the Intel 4004, the 8080, and the Zilog Z80, sharing the 1997 Kyoto Prize.

Sep 20, 2026

Masatoshi Takeichi

Masatoshi Takeichi (竹市雅俊) is a Japanese cell and developmental biologist who discovered the cadherins, the cell adhesion molecules that sort cells into tissues, winning the 2005 Japan Prize.

Masatsugu Hori

Masatsugu Hori (堀正二) is a Japanese cardiologist whose research established adenosine as an endogenous cardioprotective substance and clarified ischemic preconditioning at Osaka University, where he was the first professor of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.

Masaya Notomi

Masaya Notomi is a Japanese nanophotonics researcher at NTT Basic Research Laboratories, known for light propagation in strongly modulated photonic crystals and attojoule all-optical switching.

Masaya Sawamura

Masaya Sawamura (澤村正也; 1961–2026) was a Japanese organic chemist and professor at Hokkaido University known for catalytic asymmetric synthesis, organometallic chemistry, and ligand design.

Oct 10, 2026

Masayasu Kojima

Masayasu Kojima (児島将康) is a Japanese researcher best known as first author of the 1999 Nature paper reporting the discovery of ghrelin, the growth hormone secretagogue receptor's natural ligand.

Masayori Inouye

Masayori Inouye, born 1934, is a Japanese-born American biochemist and molecular biologist at Rutgers known for discovering antisense RNA gene regulation and mRNA interferases such as MazF.

Masayoshi Mishina

Masayoshi Mishina (三品昌美, born 1947) is a Japanese molecular neuroscientist who cloned neurotransmitter receptors, defined NMDA receptor diversity, and won the 2016 Japan Academy Prize for studies on synaptic molecules, learning, and memory.

Oct 10, 2026

Masayoshi Nagata

Masayoshi Nagata was a Japanese algebraic geometer at Kyoto University who disproved Hilbert's 14th problem in 1958, proved the compactification theorem, and taught Fields Medalist Shigefumi Mori.

Masayoshi Nakashima

Masayoshi Nakashima is a Japanese structural and earthquake engineer, first director of the E-Defense shaking table, who was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2015.

Masayoshi Son (孫正義)

Masayoshi Son, also known as Masa Son, is a Japanese technology entrepreneur of Korean descent who founded SoftBank Group in 1981 and led its $100 billion Vision Fund.

Masayoshi Takanaka (高中正義)

Masayoshi Takanaka (高中正義), born 1953 in Tokyo, is a Japanese jazz fusion guitarist from Fried Egg and the Sadistic Mica Band, solo debut Seychelles (1976), Rainbow Goblins (1981), Lagoon Records founder, now enjoying a sold-out world-tour revival.

Masayoshi Watanabe

Masayoshi Watanabe (渡邉正義), born 1954, is a Japanese electrochemist known for pioneering research on ionic liquids and solvate ionic liquids for battery electrolytes at Yokohama National University.

Masayoshi Yokoyama (横山昌義)

Masayoshi Yokoyama (横山昌義), SEGA executive and head of RGG Studio since 2021, writer and producer of the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series; overseas sales 70% of total.

Masayuki Amagai

Masayuki Amagai is a Japanese dermatologist-scientist, Professor and Chair of Dermatology at Keio University School of Medicine, known for work defining pemphigus autoantigens and immune tolerance.

Masayuki Inoue

Masayuki Inoue (井上将行) is a Japanese synthetic organic chemist and professor at the University of Tokyo since 2007, best known for the 2010 total synthesis of polytheonamide B.

Masayuki Minami

Masayuki Minami (南将之), 1941-2000, Japanese middle-blocker volleyball player for Asahi Chemical who won Olympic bronze 1964, silver 1968, and gold 1972 with Japan, plus 1970 Worlds bronze and Asian Games golds.

Masayuki Miura

Masayuki Miura (三浦正幸) is a Japanese molecular biologist at the University of Tokyo known for research on caspases and programmed cell death in Drosophila.

Oct 22, 2026

Masayuki Nagare

Masayuki Nagare (流政之, 1923–2018) was a Japanese sculptor known for granite monuments combining traditional craft with modern abstraction, including Cloud Fortress at the World Trade Center.

Sep 20, 2026

Masayuki Teramoto

Masayuki Teramoto is an epidemiologist at Northwestern University who studies coffee and green tea consumption and cardiovascular mortality in Japanese cohorts, and co-authors Global Burden of Disease studies.

Sep 20, 2026

Masayuki Yamamoto

Masayuki Yamamoto (山本雅之, born 1954) is a Japanese molecular biologist who discovered the Keap1-Nrf2 system, the cell's principal defense against oxidative stress, and won the Japan Academy Prize in 2014.

Masbate

Masbate (Lalawigan ng Masbate) is a three-island Philippine province in the Bicol Region, capital Masbate City, known as the Cattle Country of the Philippines and for gold mining in Aroroy.

Mascara

Mascara is a cosmetic applied to the eyelashes with a brush or wand to lengthen, thicken, darken, and curl them, sold as creams, cakes, and liquids.

Mascara Province

Mascara Province (ولاية معسكر) is an Algerian wilaya in the northwest, capital Mascara city, seat of Emir Abdelkader's 1832 state; 47 communes, 16 dairas, Ghriss plain aquifer water stress.

MASCARA-1

MASCARA-1 (HD 201585) is a bright A8 star 182 pc away hosting MASCARA-1 b, the first MASCARA-discovered ultra-hot Jupiter: 3.7 Jupiter masses, 2.15-day near-polar misaligned orbit, Teq about 2570 K.