All articles starting with M

Mats Traat

Mats Traat (1936–2022) was a prolific Estonian poet, prose writer, playwright, and translator known for chronicling rural life and history in southern Estonia and the Tartu language.

Mats Wilander

Mats Wilander, born Mats Arne Olof Wilander in 1964, is a Swedish former tennis player who won seven major singles titles and reached world No. 1 in 1988.

Mats Zuccarello

Mats Zuccarello (Mats André Zuccarello Aasen), Norwegian NHL right wing born 1987 in Oslo; undrafted, played for Rangers, Stars, Wild, and from 2026 the Kings; all-time Norwegian NHL scoring leader.

Matscholar, or Materials Scholar, is a natural language processing effort at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory that text-mines materials science literature, producing mat2vec embeddings published in Nature in 2019.

Oct 21, 2026

Matšeng Biosphere Reserve

Matšeng Biosphere Reserve, Lesotho's first UNESCO MAB site (2021), covers 112,033 ha of the Maloti highlands with Tšehlanyane National Park and Bokong Nature Reserve at its core, home to 17,785 people.

Oct 15, 2026

MATSim

MATSim (Multi-Agent Transport Simulation) is an open-source Java framework for large-scale agent-based transport simulations, developed by teams at ETH Zurich, TU Berlin, and CNRS Lyon.

Matson, Inc.

Matson, Inc., also known as Matson Lines, is an American ocean transportation and logistics company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, founded in 1882 and serving Hawaii, Alaska, and Guam.

Matsu Islands (马祖列岛)

Matsu Islands (马祖列岛), Lienchiang County, ROC (Taiwan): 36 granite islands near the Minjiang Estuary, Eastern Min culture, militarized 1949–1992, now battlefield-heritage tourism under PRC gray-zone pressure.

Sep 19, 2026

Matsuda Genta

Matsuda Genta (松田元太, born 1999) is a Japanese performer and actor in the seven-man group Travis Japan, known for large-scale dancing and lead roles in dramas including Tokyo Tower.

Matsuda Gonroku

Matsuda Gonroku (松田権六, 1896–1986) was a Japanese lacquer artist and maki-e master, the first Living National Treasure for maki-e, who received the Order of Culture in 1976.

Matsudaira Harusato

Matsudaira Harusato, known as Fumai (1751–1818), was the seventh lord of Matsue domain and a leading late Edo period tea master who founded the Fumai-ryū school.

Matsudaira Katamori

Matsudaira Katamori (松平容保, 1836–1893) was a Japanese daimyo, ninth and last lord of Aizu, who as Kyoto Shugoshoku policed the imperial capital from 1862, commanded the Shinsengumi, and fell in the Boshin War.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna

Matsudaira Nobutsuna (松平信綱), 1596 to 1662, was a Japanese daimyo and senior councillor under the Tokugawa shogunate who commanded the army that crushed the 1638 Shimabara Rebellion and helped shape its national seclusion policy.

Matsudaira Sadanobu

Matsudaira Sadanobu (松平定信) was a Japanese Edo-period statesman who, as chief senior councillor of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1787 to 1793, directed the Kansei Reforms.

Matsudaira Yoshinaga

Matsudaira Yoshinaga (松平慶永), pen name Shungaku, was a Japanese daimyo and 16th lord of Fukui domain who led the Hitotsubashi faction and reformed the shogunate in 1862.

Oct 21, 2026

Matsudo

Matsudo (松戸市, Matsudo-shi) is a city in northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan, bordering Tokyo across the Edogawa River. A commuter and industrial city of about 500,000 people, it was incorporated in 1943.

Oct 20, 2026

Matsue

Matsue (松江市) is the capital of Shimane Prefecture, Japan, a castle town founded in 1611 around Matsue Castle, a National Treasure keep. Known as the City of Water between Lake Shinji and Nakaumi; population about 193,000.

Matsue Shigeyori

Matsue Shigeyori (松江重頼, 1602–1680), also known as Ishū, was a Japanese haikai poet of the Teimon school who compiled the Enokoshū, the first printed early modern haikai anthology.

Sep 19, 2026

Matsui Goro

Matsui Goro (松井五郎), also known as Goro Matsui, is a Japanese lyricist born in 1957 who has written over 3,500 songs, including "Kanashimi ni Sayonara" and "Yūki 100%".

Matsui Sumako

Matsui Sumako (松井須磨子), born Kobayashi Masako, was a Japanese actress and first star of shingeki, modern Japanese theater, famous as Nora in A Doll's House (1911) and Salome (1913).

Matsukata Deflation

The Matsukata Deflation (松方財政, Matsukata zaisei, also rendered "Matsukata Finance") was the fiscal and monetary program of finance minister Matsukata Masayoshi from October 1881, establishing a silver-backed convertible currency.

Matsukata Kōjirō

Matsukata Kōjirō (松方幸次郎, 1866–1950) was a Japanese businessman and art collector who assembled about 10,000 Western and Japanese works; his collection became the founding core of Tokyo's National Museum of Western Art.

Matsukata Masayoshi

Matsukata Masayoshi (松方正義) was a Japanese statesman from Satsuma who served as finance minister from 1881, founded the Bank of Japan, and was twice prime minister.

Matsukura Katsuie

Matsukura Katsuie (松倉勝家) was an early Edo period daimyo, the second lord of Shimabara domain, under whom the Shimabara Rebellion broke out in 1637; he was beheaded in 1638.

Matsumae Domain

Matsumae Domain (松前藩) was a Japanese domain in Ezo, present-day Hokkaido, ruled by the Matsumae clan and based on a monopoly of trade with the Ainu.

Oct 21, 2026

Matsumoto

Matsumoto (松本市) is a city in Nagano Prefecture, central Honshu, Japan; castle town of Matsumoto Domain, home of national treasure Matsumoto Castle, population about 241,000, area 978.47 km².

Matsumoto Castle (松本城)

Matsumoto Castle, also known as Matsumoto-jō, is a flatland castle in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, Japan, whose keep complex is a National Treasure now undergoing a major seismic reinforcement.

Matsumoto sarin attack

Matsumoto sarin attack (松本サリン事件), June 27, 1994: Aum Shinrikyo released nearly pure sarin in a Matsumoto residential area, killing 7-8 and injuring about 140; perpetrators identified only after the 1995 Tokyo subway attack.

Matsumura Goshun

Matsumura Goshun, also known as Matsumura Gekkei, was a Japanese painter of the late Edo period, active 1752–1811, who founded the Shijō school of Kyoto painting.