List of Famous people with last name Taketsuru

Masataka Taketsuru

First Name Masataka

Last Name Taketsuru

Born on June 20, 1894

Died on August 29, 1979 (aged 85)

Born in Japan, Hiroshima Prefecture

Masataka Taketsuru 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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Takeshi Taketsuru

First Name Takeshi

Last Name Taketsuru

Born on March 6, 1924

Died on December 17, 2014 (aged 90)

Takeshi Taketsuru was a Japanese whisky distiller. He was the nephew of Masataka Taketsuru, from his sister Nobuyo, and his wife Rita Taketsuru, the founders of the Nikka Whisky company before being adopted by them after his father's death in 1943. After their deaths, he took over the company, and expanded its business substantially.

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