- Mac Yasuda
Mac Yasuda is one of the world's foremost foremost vintage-guitar collectors. He is a California based guitar dealer and a friend of the actor Steve Segal. He started off running an English language school in Kobe Japan in the 70s and eventually became one of the largest vintage guitar dealers/collectors in the US and an executive in the organization of Akira Tsumura, the heir to the Japanese Tsumura Corporation built on their bath salt "basukurin" which is a household-name over there and who was disgraced in an abuse of corporate office scandal in 1997.
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