# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/masuda-takashi
# Generated: 2026-09-01T08:44:08.157Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/masuda-takashi"
name: "Masuda Takashi"
slug: "masuda-takashi"
description: "Baron Masuda Takashi , was a Japanese industrialist, investor, and art collector. He was a prominent entrepreneur in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan, responsible for transforming Mitsui into a zaibatsu through the creation of a general trading company, Mitsui & Co. He also established a newspaper, the Chugai Shōgyō Shimpō (中外商業新報), which was later renamed the Nihon Keizai Shimbun."
tagline: "Japanese noble"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Masuda_Takashi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1848-11-12"
deathDate: "1938-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.983744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%8A%E7%94%B0%E5%AD%9D"
    title: "益田孝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%8A_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "تاكاشي ماسودا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%89_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7"
    title: "تاكاشى ماسودا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masuda_Takashi"
    title: "Masuda Takashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masuda_Takashi"
    title: "Masuda Takashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masuda_Takashi"
    title: "Masuda Takashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%A7_%D8%AA%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C"
    title: "ماسودا تاکاشی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masuda_Takashi"
    title: "Masuda Takashi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9B%8A%E7%94%B0%E5%AD%9D"
    title: "益田孝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B0%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Мацуда, Такаси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tly.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuda_Takasi"
    title: "Matsuda Takasi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q786186"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump