Famous People with Name Masato

Masato Hatanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masato Hatanaka: Japanese musician, composer, sound artist, sound designer and producer.Masato Hatanaka learnt everything concerning music and sound design by self-study. His concept is haute couture sound and quests for the way sound should be. He is a composer who deals with creating many works in fields such as stages, art, architectire and design and all eyes are on him. In 2008, he presented his works at the Issey Miyake XXIc. - XXIst Century Man, Tokyo Wonder at Milano Salone 2008, Lexus International Gallery Aoyama and is highly acknowledged. His unique method of giving life to any kind of sound has been highly distinguished in the world.

Masato Nakamura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masato Nakamura: He formed the band Dreams Come True in 1988, and started the record company "DCT Records" in 2002. He has also composed music for various television commercials and the video games Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. On 22 June 2008, he married Makii, the lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band High and Mighty Color.[1]

Masato Kato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masato Kato: a Japanese game developer and scenario writer. He first worked for Tecmo on Captain Tsubasa and the Ninja Gaiden series. He went on to work for Gainax, then Square. He is mostly known for having penned the script of Chrono Trigger (based on a story draft by Yuuji Horii), as well as Radical Dreamers, parts of Final Fantasy VII, Xenogears and Chrono Cross.Kato left Square after designing the plot of Final Fantasy XI: Rise of the Zilart to become a freelance scenario writer. In addition to games for different companies, he has continued to work on Square Enix projects such as the World of Mana series, an enhanced port of Chrono Trigger for the Nintendo DS, and three more expansion chapters for Final Fantasy XI.

Masato Kawabata            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masato Kawabata: a Japanese professional drifting driver, currently competing in the D1 Grand Prix series for Team Toyo.He was interested in cars from an early age, and as soon he received his drivers licence he purchased a Nissan 180SX and began practising drifting techniques. He studied Keiichi Tsuchiya's 'Drift Bible' and learnt fast, soon he was ready to take his drifting to the race track where he met D1 driver Atsushi Kuroi who gave him plenty of advice on how to improve. At 19 entered his first drift competition against his mentor Kuroi and to everyones surprise he won. When he was 21 he was scouted by the president of tuning company GP Sports who sponsored him until 2003 when he was offered a job testing for them

Masato Fujita            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masato Fujita: is a Japanese football player who currently plays for the J-league team Yokohama F. Marinos.

Masatoshi Nagase            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masatoshi Nagase: a Japanese actor. He is most known in the West for his roles in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's Cold Fever and Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train, in Japan for his role as TV's Mike Hama (i.e., Mike Hammer).