Definitely didn't expect one of Japan's most famous video game companies to have been started by a GI named David.

Taito was founded by a Ukrainian guy called Michael https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito

It's part of the strange history of Sega. Even back in their heyday, Sega of Japan had a pattern of treating its American and European offices as subordinate, yet the founders of the company just a few decades earlier were Americans