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Masatsugu Sakurai  

Masatsugu Sakurai

Yoshimasa Electronic Inc.
President

BACKGROUND
1951.01 Born in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
1969.03 Graduate from Tokai senior high school
1973.03 Graduate from Waseda University (School of Education, Mathematics Department)
1973-1976 Work for a software company
1976.03 Found YOSHIMASA ELECTRONIC
1978.10- Establish YOSIMASA ELECTRONIC INC.,  and assumed president
1997.04 Enter Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University (Doctoral course)
2000.03 Finish doctoral course. Earn a Ph.D. in engineering.


STUDY
- PERSONAL HISTORY OF STUDY -
1997. Enter Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University (Doctoral course)
1998. Provide the acoustic analyzing system for the experiment with 1/10 scale model of Tsuyama music hall
1998. Read to the paper at ICA/ASA'98 held in Seattle

- SPECIAL FIELD OF STUDY -
Architectural Acoustics

- SOCIETY -
1) AES (AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY)

- SUBJECT OF CURRENT STUDY -
1) Development of the Diagnostic System for Sound Fields
2) Design and Diagnosis about Audio-visual Environment

- WORKS -
1) "A Diagnostic System Measuring Orthogonal Factors of Sound Fields in a Scale Model of Concert Hall" M. Sakurai, S. Aizawa & Y. Ando, read to 16th ICA/135th ASA (1998)
2) "Acoustic design of a concert hall using four physical factors at each seat, and the acoustic measurement after construction" Y. Ando, S. Sato, T. Nakajima, & M. Sakurai, Acustica/acta acustica (1997)
3) "A sound simulation system for seat selection" M. Sakurai et al., in "MUSIC & CONCERT HALL ACOUSTICS" Y. Ando & D. Noson, Eds ACADEMIC PRESS (1997), chapter 6, p.51-59

HOBBY
Personal Computer
Audio & Video
Motor Sports (See a video,  '89 AVCO FALKEN-CUP (August 5-6))

LINK
YOSHIMASA ELECTRONIC INC.
Ando Lab, Graduate School of Science & Technology, Kobe University
Department of Architecture & Architectural Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Kagoshima University (Residential Environmental Engineering Laboratory)

E-MAIL
saku@ymec.com