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Masao Kuda

Japanese basketball player and coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ50411713 ↗
Source-derived summary

Masao Kuda (玖田 将夫, Kuda Masao) is the head coach of the Veertien Mie Basketball in the Japanese B.League.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Masao Kuda” as japanese basketball player and coach. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Masao, Kuda and Japanese.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 19-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-06-09. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Masao, Kuda and Japanese providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50411713. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Masao Kuda” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.