Masataka Taketsuru Biography
Masataka Taketsuru

Masataka Taketsuru (竹鶴 政孝, 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.

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