Masataka taketsuru chest freezer

Japanese businessman (1894–1979)

Masataka Taketsuru (竹鶴 政孝, Taketsuru Masataka, 1894–1979) was a Japanese chemist and businessman.

Masataka taketsuru chest freezer

He is known as the founder of Japan's whisky industry and Nikka Whisky Distilling.

Born to a family that had owned a sake brewery since 1733, he traveled to Scotland in 1918 to study organic chemistry and distilling.

He then returned to Japan establishing a whisky distillery at Suntory and founded his own distilling company, Nikka Whisky, in 1934.

Early life

Masataka Taketsuru was born on June 20, 1894, in Takehara, Hiroshima, to a family that had owned a sake brewery since 1733.

Experiences in Scotland

In December 1918, he arrived in Scotland and enrolled at the University of Glasgow, where he studied organic chemistry in the summer of 1919.^[1] Taketsuru studied under Thomas Stewart Patterson, the Gardiner Chair of Chemistry.

In April 1919, Taketsuru began his apprenticeship at Longmorn distillery in