Patrice:
I think the answer is no.
There were 2-3 good candidates to become a great golf architect during the 1920's and early 1930's. The Akaboshi brothers attended Princeton, got to know C.B. Macdonald, and went to study courses in Scotland ... but then geopolitics intervened, rather forcefully. Kinya Fujita, Seichi Inouye, and Komei Ohtani all collaborated with Hugh Alison to complete the courses he designed on his visit to Japan in 1931 ... but the war cut careers short, and when Inouye practiced after the war, he was saddled with the two-green system as a new standard, which made it almost impossible to design great courses.
In the boom of the 1980's, there were quite a few Japanese architects active, but Americans got the bulk of the big projects because their names made it easier to sell memberships on the stock market ... and that's what the boom was really all about. Again, just about the time some younger architects with good training started to get some work, the bottom fell out [this time due to economics rather than war].