Japanese inventors

Genichi Taguchi (田口 玄一 Taguchi Gen'ichi) (January 1, 1924 – June 2, 2012) was an engineer and statistician.

Mikimoto Kōkichi (御木本 幸吉, 10 March 1858 – 21 September 1954) was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto.

'Yasujiro Niwa (丹羽 保次郎 Niwa Yasujirō, April 1, 1893 – February 28, 1975) was a Japanese electrical scientist from Matsusaka, Mie.

Taro Takemi (武見 太郎 Takemi Tarō, August 7, 1904 – December 20, 1983) was a Japanese physician who served as 11th President of the Japan Medical Association for 25 years from 1957 to 1982, and also served as President of the World Medical Association from 1975 to 1976.

Nagai Nagayoshi (長井 長義, August 8, 1844 – February 10, 1929) was a notable Japanese organic chemist and pharmacologist, best known for his study of ephedrine.

Jōkichi Takamine (高峰 譲吉 Takamine Jōkichi, November 3, 1854 – July 22, 1922) was a Japanese chemist.

Yasukichi Murakami (村上 安吉 Murakami Yasukichi, 19 December 1880 – 26 June 1944) was a businessman and inventor.

Hanaoka Seishū (華岡 青洲, October 23, 1760 – November 21, 1835) was a Japanese surgeon of the Edo period with a knowledge of Chinese herbal medicine, as well as Western surgical techniques he had learned through Rangaku (literally "Dutch learning", and by extension "Western learning").

Kunitomo Kosunaki (国友 一貫斎, November 21, 1778 – December 26, 1840) was a Japanese gun manufacturer of the early 19th century, who, after having spent several months in Edo, where he could get accustomed with Dutch wares, built Japan's first reflective telescope in 1831.

Yoshiyuki Sankai is a Japanese billionaire businessman and academic, the founder, president and CEO of the cyborg-robot maker Cyberdyne; and professor of the Graduate School of Systems & Information Engineering at the University of Tsukuba.

Hachiro Sugimoto (杉本 八郎 Sugimoto Hachirō) is a Japanese chemist and pharmacologist, known for his discovery of Donepezil.

Dr. Fujio Masuoka (舛岡 富士雄 Masuoka Fujio, born May 8, 1943, Takasaki, Gunma) is the inventor of flash memory.

Shigeo Hirose (広瀬 茂男 Hirose Shigeo) BEng, MEng, PhD (born 1947 in Tokyo) is an award winning pioneer of robotics technology and a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Tanaka Hisashige (田中 久重, October 16, 1799 – November 7, 1881) was a Japanese rangaku scholar, engineer and inventor during the Bakumatsu and early Meiji period in Japan.

Shintaro Uda (宇田 新太郎 Uda Shintarō, June 1, 1896 – August 18, 1976) Japanese inventor.

Hino Kumazō (日野 熊蔵, June 9, 1878 – January 15, 1946) was a Japanese Inventor and Aviation Pioneer.

Daisuke Inoue (井上 大佑 Inoue Daisuke, born May 10, 1940) is a Japanese businessman best known as the inventor of the karaoke machine.

Tokushichi Mishima (三島 徳七 Mishima Tokushichi, February 24, 1893 – November 19, 1975) was a Japanese metallurgist.

Hidetsugu Yagi (八木 秀次 Yagi Hidetsugu, January 28, 1886 – January 19, 1976) was a Japanese electrical engineer from Osaka.

In 1910, Suzuki succeeded in extracting a water-soluble complex of micronutrients from rice bran and named it aberic acid.

Toshio Iue (井植 歳男 Iue Toshio, 28 December 1902 – 16 July 1969) was a Japanese inventor and industrialist who founded Sanyo Electric Co.

Ryōichi Yazu (矢頭 良一 Yazu Ryōichi, 30 June 1878 – 16 October 1908) was a Japanese inventor.