Masataka Taketsuru, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Masataka Taketsuru

Japanese businessman

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1894

Place of Birth: Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 29-Aug-1979

Profession: businessperson, engineer, politician

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Masataka Taketsuru (?? ??, Taketsuru Masataka, 1894–1979) was a Japanese chemist and businessman who founded Japan's first whisky industry.
He was born in 1894 in Takehara, Hiroshima, to a family that had owned a sake brewery since 1733.