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Junichi Masuda

1968 - Today

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Junichi Masuda (増田 順一, Masuda Jun'ichi, born January 12, 1968) is a Japanese video game composer, director, designer, producer, singer, programmer and trombonist, best known for his work in the Pokémon franchise. He was a member of Game Freak where he was an employee and executive at the company since 1989 when he founded it alongside Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Junichi Masuda has received more than 885,576 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Junichi Masuda is the 1,223rd most popular composer (down from 1,115th in 2019), the 1,322nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,231st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Japanese Composer.

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  • 890k

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  • 43.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Junichi Masuda ranks 1,223 out of 1,216Before him are Thomas Weelkes, John Kander, H. C. Robbins Landon, Rachel Portman, Harry Warren, and John Debney. After him are Morten Lauridsen, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ernest Gold, Virgil Thomson, Fartein Valen, and Pascal Dusapin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Junichi Masuda ranks 246Before him are Thomas Strunz, Katja K, Oleh Tyahnybok, Jorge Larrionda, Jaume Balagueró, and Danny Nucci. After him are Iris Chang, Lawrence Makoare, Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Michael Hall, Shelley Lubben, and Gloria Trevi.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Junichi Masuda ranks 1,322 out of 6,048Before him are Yukiko Okada (1967), Norifumi Abe (1975), Tokiharu Abe (1911), Daijiro Kato (1976), Naomi Kawase (1969), and Keiko Saito (1965). After him are Noboru Terada (1917), Yōjirō Takita (1955), Tomoyasu Hotei (1962), Mika Nakashima (1983), Takashi Tezuka (1960), and Kazumi Tsubota (1956).

Among COMPOSERS In Japan

Among composers born in Japan, Junichi Masuda ranks 17Before him are Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933), Yasushi Akutagawa (1925), Fumio Hayasaka (1914), Koji Kondo (1961), Akira Yamaoka (1968), and Hiroyuki Sawano (1980). After him are Toshio Hosokawa (1955), Masaaki Suzuki (1954), Yuzo Koshiro (1967), Kazumi Totaka (1967), and Hitoshi Sakimoto (1969).

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