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Toshinari Masuda was born on 8 November, 1965 in Japan, Aichi Prefecture, is a novelist. Discover Toshinari Masuda's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?
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Novelist |
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59 years old |
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Scorpio |
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8 November, 1965 |
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8 November |
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Japan, Aichi Prefecture |
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Japan |
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Toshinari Masuda Height, Weight & Measurements
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He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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Toshinari Masuda Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Toshinari Masuda worth at the age of 59 years old? Toshinari Masuda’s income source is mostly from being a successful novelist. He is from Japan. We have estimated
Toshinari Masuda's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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In 2017, he won the second "Books About Hokkaido Award" for his work, "Hokkai Times Story.”
In April 2016, Masuda took early retirement from the Chunichi Shimbun, where he had worked for 25 years, and became a full-time writer.
In 2013, he was nominated as a finalist for the 4th Yamada Futaro Award for his work Memories of Nanatei Judo.
In 2012, he won both the 43rd Soichi Oya Nonfiction Award and the 11th Shincho Document Award for his book Why Masahiko Kimura Didn't Kill Rikidozan.
His debut novel, Shatoon/Brown bear Forest, is an entertaining piece influenced by Steven Spielberg, and it also received attention from creators of other genres such as Hideaki Sorachi and Hitoshi Iwaaki. He was a finalist for the Sogen SF Short Story Prize, and also showed a slapstick writing style in "Attack of the Saturn People", which was featured in NOVA: A Newly Written Japanese SF Collection 7 (published in 2012).
After winning the Grand Prize for the This mystery is great! Award in 2006, he started expanding his work into other genres such as nonfiction, essays, and criticism. Later, he won the Sōichi Ōya Nonfiction Award for his work, Why Masahiko Kimura Didn't Kill Rikidozan.
In 2006, after winning the grand prize for the This mystery is great! Award for his work, Shatoon/Brown bear Forest, manga version, Masuda became an author. The inspiration for this piece came from the rage he felt when he was part of an environmental protection movement group back in college, fighting the forced logging of the Shiretoko virgin forests.
In this senior year, after his final Nanatei Judo tournament, he retired from the club and dropped out of college. He started working as a newspaper reporter at the Hokkai Times in 1989. In 1992, he started working at Chunichi Shimbun to become a reporter for the Sports Department.
Toshinari Masuda (増田 俊也, born November 8, 1965) is a Japanese novelist, critic, and visiting professor of Nagoya University of Arts.
In his 1600-page nonfiction piece, Why Masahiko Kimura Didn't Kill Rikidozan, he used a distinct writing style where he used himself as one of the main characters of the story. Some criticized Masuda's depiction of Masahiko Kimura, saying it was biased in his favor, but writers such as Baku Yumemakura, Keiichiro Hirano, Hiroyuki Itsuki, Riku Onda, and Yoshiko Sakurai said they enjoyed the book.
