Arturo Maximo Yamasaki Maldonado[a] (11 May 1929 Lima, Peru – 23 July 2013 Mexico City, Mexico), also known as Arturo Yamasaki, was a Peruvian-Mexican international football referee.

[1] He represented the Peruvian Football Association from 1960 to 1966, then he emigrated to Mexico, where he also took citizenship and represented Mexico Football Association until end of his referee career.

[2][3] He also officiated 3 matches in World Cup qualifying (CONCACAF zone) 1962 (1) and 1970 (2).

Below his World Cup matches that officiated: Yamasaki sent off two players in the 1962 World Cup quarter final match between Yugoslavia and West Germany, and more famously, Garrincha in the semifinal between Brazil and hosts Chile; however, Garrincha was allowed to play the final because Yamasaki did not remain in Chile long enough to uphold the one-match ban on the Brazilian.

[5][6] About Game of Century according to some German players, Yamasaki favored the Italians and German player Uwe Seeler wrote in his memoirs in 2003 Thank you, football also about this match that: ...Referee Yamasaki was completely on the side of the Italians....[7] But in TV recordings of this scene, in which Beckenbauer injured himself, with showing of slow motion the former national coach Sepp Herberger said that this scene cannot justify a penalty kick and referee's decision was impartial.