Born
Otaru, Hokkaidō, Masuyama graduated in
physics from the
Imperial University of Tokyo in 1937 and earned his
doctorate in 1943. Characterising Fisher's approach to statistics as
the science of inference and planning, Masuyama worked across a wide range of agencies including: the
Japan Meteorological Agency; the
University of Tokyo School of Medicine; the
Institute of Statistical Mathematics; the
Indian Statistical Institute, where he collaborated with Fisher, another frequent visitor; the
Ministry of Public Health and Welfare, where his teaching in
design of experiments profoundly influenced the young
Genichi Taguchi; the
University of North Carolina, and
The Catholic University of America. In 1970, he joined the applied mathematics department at the University of Tokyo and remained there until his retirement in 1988. Masuyama held many radical views on the application of statistics to
human biology. ==Honours==