Japan
People tagged with Japan.
15 profiles
Technology
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Japanese programmer who created the Ruby programming language
Born 1965
Technology
Akio Morita
Co-founder of Sony who launched the Walkman
1921 – 1999
Technology
Kōnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic, Japan’s “god of management”
1894 – 1989
Technology
Kazuo Inamori
Founder of Kyocera and KDDI who rescued Japan Airlines
1932 – 2022
Science
Shuji Nakamura
Japanese-American engineer who invented the bright blue LED
Born 1954
Science
Isamu Akasaki
Japanese scientist who made the first gallium-nitride blue LED
1929 – 2021
Hiroshi Yamauchi
Nintendo president who turned a playing-card firm into a video-game giant
1927 – 2013
Science
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Japanese roboticist who builds lifelike androids, including a copy of himself
Born 1963
Technology
Satoru Iwata
Programmer turned Nintendo president who launched the DS and Wii
1959 – 2015
Technology
Masatoshi Shima
Japanese engineer who co-designed the Intel 4004, the first microprocessor
Born 1943
Technology
Hiroshi Mikitani
Founder and CEO of Rakuten, Japan’s e-commerce giant
Born 1965
Science
Hiroshi Amano
Japanese physicist who co-created the blue LED as a graduate student
Born 1960
Technology
Masayoshi Son
Founder of SoftBank and the Vision Fund
Born 1957
Technology
Masaru Ibuka
Engineer who co-founded Sony and drove its innovations
1908 – 1997
Film & TV
Hideo Kojima
Japanese game creator of Metal Gear and Death Stranding
Born 1963