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Masaru
Masaru Hayami,
the 28th Governor of the Bank of JapanPronunciation Má-sá-rú Gender Male Origin Word/Name Japanese Meaning It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. Region of origin Japanese Other names Related names Suguru Masaru (まさる, マサル ) is a masculine Japanese given name.
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Possible writings
Masaru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
- 勝, "excel"
- 優, "excel"
- 大, "large"
- 将 or 將, "commander"
The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.
People
- with the given name Masaru
- Masaru Akiba (勝), a Japanese football player
- Masaru Emoto (勝), a Japanese author
- Masaru Furukawa (勝), a Japanese swimmer and olympic champion
- Masaru Hayami (優), the 28th Governor of the Bank of Japan
- Masaru Ibuka (大), a Japanese electronics industrialist
- Masaru Ikeda (勝), a Japanese actor and voice actor
- Grant Masaru Imahara, an American electronics and radio control expert
- Masaru Inada (勝), a Japanese skeleton racer
- Inoue Masaru (勝), a Japanese samurai known as the "father of the Japanese railways"
- Masaru Katori (まさる), a female Japanese writer and manga author
- Masaru Kageura (將), a Japanese baseball player
- Masaru Kitao (勝), a Japanese animator
- Masaru Konuma (勝), a Japanese director
- Masaru Kurotsu (勝), a Japanese football player
- Masaru Matsuhashi (優), a Japanese football player
- Masaru Edward Fulenwider-Musashi, a Wushu martial artist, stuntman, and an actor
- Masaru Ogawa (勝), a Japanese figure skater
- Masaru Sakurai (賢), a member of the Japanese musical group The Alfee
- Masaru Sato (勝), a Japanese composer
- Masaru Shimabukuro (優), a member of the Okinawan music band Begin
- Masaru Takumi (勝), a Japanese yakuza
- Masaru Tobita (将), known as Survival Tobita, a Japanese professional wrestler
- Kyokutenhō Masaru (勝), a Mongolian sumo wrestler
- Wakanohana Masaru (勝), a Japanese sumo wrestler
Fictional characters
- with the given name Masaru
- Masaru (マサル), a character in the manga and animated film Akira
- Masaru Kato (勝), a character from the anime and manga series Gantz
- Masaru Aoki of Hajime no Ippo
See also
- 27791 Masaru, a Main-belt Asteroid
- IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award
- Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoiyo!! Masaru-san, a manga series
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