List of Famous people born in Sado, Japan

Hitomi Soga

First Name Hitomi

Last Name Soga

Born on May 17, 1959 (age 67)

Born in Japan, Niigata Prefecture

Hitomi Soga-Jenkins is a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea together with her mother, Miyoshi Soga, from Sado Island, Japan, in 1978. She married Charles Robert Jenkins, an American defector to North Korea, in 1980. Charles Robert Jenkins died in 2017, Hitomi currently lives in Japan with her children.

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Masuda Takashi

First Name Masuda

Last Name Takashi

Born on November 12, 1848

Died on December 28, 1938 (aged 90)

Born in Japan, Niigata Prefecture

Baron Masuda Takashi , was a Japanese industrialist, investor, and art collector. He was a prominent entrepreneur in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan, responsible for transforming Mitsui into a zaibatsu through the creation of a general trading company, Mitsui Bussan. He also established a newspaper, the Chugai Shōgyō Shimpō (中外商業新報), which was later renamed the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

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