Masaaki is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:Masaaki Akaike , Japanese politician Asukai Masaaki , Japanese poet Masaaki Daito , Japanese baseball player Masaaki Endoh , Japanese singer-songwriter Masaaki Esaka , Japanese baseball player Masaaki Fujita , Japanese politician Masaaki Fukuoka , Japanese judoka Masaaki Furukawa , Japanese footballer Masaaki Goto , Japanese footballer Masaaki Hatsumi , Japanese ninjutsu practitioner Masaaki Higashiguchi , Japanese footballer Masaaki Hirano , Japanese food historian Masaaki Hiyama , Japanese drummer Masaaki Ideguchi , Japanese footballer Masaaki Iinuma , Japanese aviator Masaaki Ikenaga , Japanese baseball player Masaaki Imai , Japanese business theorist Inaba Masaaki , Japanese daimyō Masaaki Itokawa , Japanese politician Masaaki Kanagawa , Japanese Go player Masaaki Kanda , Japanese politician Masaaki Kaneko , Japanese sport wrestler Masaaki Kanno , Japanese footballer and manager Masaaki Kato , Japanese footballer Masaaki Kimura , Japanese academic Masaaki Kishibe , Japanese guitarist Masaaki Kitaru , Japanese baseball player Masaaki Koido , Japanese footballer Masaaki Koike , Japanese baseball player Masaaki Koyama , Japanese baseball player Masaaki Kozu , Japanese cross-country skier Masaaki Kukino , Japanese video game producer Masaaki Mochizuki , Japanese professional wrestler Masaaki Mori , Japanese footballer Masaaki Mori (baseball) , Japanese baseball player and manager Masaaki Murakami , Japanese footballer Masaaki Nakagawa , Japanese photographer Masaaki Nishimori , Japanese footballer Masaaki Niwa, Japanese engineer Masaaki Noiri , Japanese kickboxer Oginohana Masaaki , Japanese sumo wrestler Masaaki Osaka , Japanese communist and murderer Masaaki Ōsawa , Japanese politician Masaaki Ōsumi , Japanese anime director Masaaki Oyagi , Japanese luger Masaaki Sakai , Japanese actor and singer Masaaki Sakata , Japanese rugby union player Masaaki Satake , Japanese karateka, kickboxer and mixed martial artist Masaaki Sawanobori , Japanese footballer Masaaki Shimakawa , Japanese World War II flying ace Masaaki Shirakawa , Japanese economist and banker Masaaki Suzuki , Japanese musician and conductor Masaaki Tachihara , Japanese writer Masaaki Taira ( , Japanese politician Masaaki Takada , Japanese footballer Masaaki Tanaka , Japanese writer Masaaki Taniai , Japanese politician Masaaki Toma , Japanese football referee Masaaki Tsukada , Japanese voice actor Masaaki Tsuya , Japanese businessman Masaaki Ueki , Japanese karateka Masaaki Yaguchi , Japanese guitarist and DJ Masaaki Yamada , Japanese physicist Masaaki Yamazaki , Japanese politician Masaaki Yanagishita , Japanese footballer and manager Masaaki Yuasa , Japanese anime director, animator and screenwriter