Masayoshi Sato

Masayoshi Sato
Profile
Japanese name:	佐藤 正義 (Satō Masayoshi)
English name:	Masayoshi Sato
Age:	32 (18 years ago)
Gender:	Male
Date of birth:	unknown
Relatives:	Mrs. Sato (wife) Miwako Sato (only daughter)
Occupation:	Senior Superintendent
Status:	Deceased
Statistics
First appearance:	Manga: File 267 Anime: Episode 205
Appearances:	Chapters: 5 Chapters: 1 Episodes: 5
Cases solved:	0
Actors
Japanese voice:	Toru Okawa

Masayoshi Sato (佐藤 正義 ,Satō Masayoshi) is a character in the manga and anime franchise Detective Conan.

Background

Husband, wife, and daughter.

Masayoshi Sato was Miwako Sato's father. During his high school years, he was the baseball team's captain with his friends Hidero Saruwatari, Shuji Kano, Mitsuo Inomata, and Chiyoko Kandori. He went on to become a police officer, attaining the rank of Senior Superintendent in the Tokyo MPD when he died on duty, eighteen years prior to the current timeline.

Personality

He was a righteous law enforcement member. He also seemed to be a good husband and father.

Appearance

He had short brown hair and brown eyes, and was not particularly tall.

Plot overview

Sato's Father Case (Manga: 267-269, Anime: 205-206)

It was eighteen years ago, a day with heavy rain. Sato had just arrested his friend Shuji Kano for bank robbery and was escorting him to the police station. Believing that there was no hope for him in life, Kano tried to commit suicide by running into a trunk. Sato pushed Kano out of the way in order to safe his life, but he was hit and severely injured instead. As Kano ran away, Sato cried "surrender yourself, surrender yourself" (pronounced as "jishu shiro") while extending an hand in his direction. The passersby were not able to hear Sato clearly and thought that he was saying "Shuushirou", which is why the case came to be known as the "case of Shuushirou". Sato later died on the ambulance, in the company of his wife and daughter; although he still could speak, he stayed silent on the identity of the robber, as he was hoping that Kano would listen to him and go to the police station voluntarily. This did not happen, and Kano was at large for another eighteen years until Takagi and Conan solve the case and Miwako Sato avenges her father and apprehends him.

Relationships analysis

Mrs. Sato

Masayoshi Sato seems to have maintained a good relationship with his wife. On the day he died, when he went to work, Mrs. Sato told him to be careful. Masayoshi replied while smiling that he should not worry, as an astrologer had predicted that he would have a good day.

Miwako Sato

Masayoshi cared deeply about his daughter, and this was and still is reciprocated. When he was on the verge of dying, Miwako sobbed and asked her father why a person fighting for justice would have such a fate. Masayoshi told her that the word "justice" should be kept in her heart; Sato still remembers this quote to this day, and she additionally carries Masayoshi's old handcuffs around as an omamori.

Different looks

Episode 206

Episode 535

Trivia

• Sato's given name, "正義", means "justice" both in Japanese and in traditional Chinese. While used in that sense and not as a Japanese male given name, "正義" is pronounced as "seigi".

In other languages

Language	Given Name	Family Name
Japanese	正義 Masayoshi	佐藤 Satou
Arabic	ماسايوشي Masayoshi	ساتو Sato
Chinese (Simplified)	正义 Zhèngyì	佐藤 Zhúoténg
Chinese (Traditional)	正義 Zhèngyì	佐藤 Zhúoténg
German	Masayoshi	Satou

See also

• List of notable case characters