Famous People with Name Masaru

Masaru Hayami            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masaru Hayami: was a Japanese businessman from Kobe. He graduated from The Tokyo College of Commerce (now Hitotsubashi University) in 1947.[1]The former CEO of the Nissho Iwai Corporation, he later served as governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) from 1998 to 2003.[2] Hayami was a controversial BOJ governor because he insisted Japanese politicians must change the structure of the economy before the BOJ could take further measures to end deflation.

Masaru Ibuka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masaru Ibuka: was a Japanese electronics industrialist. He co-founded what is now Sony.He graduated in 1933 from Waseda University where he was nicknamed "Captain America." After graduating, he went to work at Photo-Chemical Laboratory, a company which processed movie film. In 1945, he left the company and founded a radio repair shop in Tokyo.In 1946 Ibuka and Akio Morita co-founded Sony Corporation, originally named Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation (prior to 1958). Ibuka was instrumental in securing the licensing of transistor technology to Sony from Bell Labs in the 1950s, thus making Sony one of the first companies to apply transistor technology to non-military uses. Ibuka served as president of Sony from 1950 to 1971, and then served as chairman of Sony between 1971 and 1976. Ibuka left Sony in 1976, but maintained close ties as an advisor until his death in 1997 of a heart failure.

Masaru Kaneko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masaru Kaneko: a Japanese economist specializing in Institutional economics, public finance and local government finance. He is best known for appearance in TV shows such as Sunday Morning or Asamade nama terebi and authoring several books and newspaper articles. Since 2000, he has been a professor at Keio University.

Masaru Kageura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masaru Kageura: was a Japanese baseball player from Matsuyama, Ehime. His team reached the final in the 1932 National High School Baseball Championship, but his team was defeated by Masao Yoshida in the final. He joined Tigers and he was a good rival for Eiji Sawamura in Giants. He was killed in the battle of the Philippines in World War II. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1965. He is one of two baseball players (Eiji Sawamura is the other) who was inducted into the Hall of Fame after being killed in World War II.

Masaru Ogawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masaru Ogawa: a Japanese figure skater who is now a Doctor of Dental Surgery. He is a four-time Japanese national champion. He placed 14th in the 1984 Winter Olympic Games.

Gagamaru Masaru            Origin/Culture/Country: Armenian

Gagamaru Masaru: is a professional sumo wrestler from Georgia. The third Georgian national after Kokkai and Tochinoshin to make the top makuuchi division, he made his professional debut in November 2005, reaching the juryo division in November 2009 and makuuchi in July 20

Kyokutenho Masaru            Origin/Culture/Country: Mongol

Kyokutenho Masaru: is a professional sumo wrestler. He made his debut in 1992, with the first group of Mongolians ever to join the sport in Japan, reaching the top division in 1998. He has received five special prizes for Fighting Spirit during his career and has been runne