Masato Mugitani

I had to do a double-take when I learned this guy is a physician, bureaucrat, medical scholar, and magician all at once. Like, pick a lane, Masato. You don't just casually become a licensed doctor from Niigata University, slide into government work, publish as a medical academic, and also perform as a magician without some serious "I do what I want" energy. He was born in Niigata Prefecture and rose to head the Bureau of International Medical Cooperation and then to a councillor post at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, which somehow makes the magician detail hit even harder.

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Masato Mugitani is a Japanese physician, medical scientist, bureaucrat, and magician born in 1952. He studied at Niigata University, where he received his medical education. He is notable for combining a career in medicine and government service with an interest in magic. Born in Niigata Prefecture, he also studied at Johns Hopkins University and served as director-general of the Bureau of International Medical Cooperation at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine, as a councillor in the Minister's Secretariat of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and as a professor at Tokyo Medical University.

Name (English)

Masato Mugitani

Name (Japanese)

麦谷眞里

Reading

むぎたに まさと

Born

1952

Origin

Niigata Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Physician / Bureaucrat / Medical Scientist / Magician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Dragon

University

Niigata University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%BA%A6%E8%B0%B7%E7%9C%9E%E9%87%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11677406

Tags

• Physician
• Bureaucrat
• Medical Scientist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.