Famous People with Name Maeda

Maeda Atsuko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Atsuko: a member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 TeamA. Her nickname is Acchan.In 2007, Maeda played the sub-leading role in the movie "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata" (????????????, "Ashita no Watashi no Tsukurikata"?) This is her first performance as an actress. She started shooting this film August 20th,2006 and finished it in the end of September. She had her hair cut short for creating her part. She auditioned for this film before she was elected this role.AKB48 released "AITAKATTA" from the major label "DefSTER Records Inc.". (Before this disk, two disks were released as indies disks.) In this song, 20 members are selected from the 36 members (in TeamA & TeamK). Maeda is one of this selected member, and she performed leading role in the promortion video in this song.

Maeda Genzo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Genzo: was a Japanese photographer from northern Kyushu. In Nagasaki he studied photography under Jan Karel van den Broek and J. L. C. Pompe van Meerdervoort. Neither of these teachers was an experienced photographer, and their attempts to produce photographs were largely failures. Nevertheless, in turn they taught wet-collodion process to Maeda and his fellow students, who included Furukawa Shumpei, Kawano Teizo, Ueno Hikoma, and Horie Kuwajiro, among others.

Maeda Nobuaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Nobuaki: was a Japanese professional go player, a disciple of Honinbo Shusai, and a member of the Nihon Ki-in, the main organizational body for go in Japan. His own disciples were Norio Kudo, Yusuke Oeda, Shiori Itsuzo, Nagahara Yoshiaki, and Morikawa Masao.Maeda reached the highest professional rank, 9 dan, in 1963, but never achieved the consistent record of tournament success that marks the truly elite player. Maeda is famous today principally for his series of tsume-go (problem) collections, which gained him the honorary nickname "god of tsume-go." It is said that he composed a problem a day for 40 years. Many of these problems are considered especially beautiful, ingenious, or instructive.[citation needed]

Maeda Gen'i            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maeda Gen'i: was a Buddhist priest from Mt. Hiei, and later one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Go-Bugyo (Five Elders). He entered the service of Oda Nobunaga sometime before 1570.Gen'i was appointed to be a deputy over Kyoto in 1582. After the death of Oda Nobunaga that same year, Gen'i went on to serve under Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At Takamai Domain in Tamba Province, Gen'i received a 50,000-koku fief. Ten years later, he was to lay the ground work for the Fushimi Castle. In 1595, Gen'i was named among the "Five Magistrates" by Hideyoshi. As a member of this council, Gen'i was "concerned with national affairs and subordinate only to Hideyoshi".[1] In addition to managing a great deal of other affairs, Maeda also oversaw the reception of the likes of the Emperor and representatives of the Jesuits to Hideyoshi's Jurakudai palace.

Maedayama Eigoro            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Maedayama Eigoro: was a sumo wrestler from Ehime Prefecture, Japan. He was the sport's 39th Yokozuna. He was born in Nishiuwa District. On his school excursion to Oita in the spring of 1926, he met future yokozuna Futabayama Sadaji, who had not yet joined Tatsunami stable,

Yukichi Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yukichi Maeda: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Nishikasugai District, Aichi and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1990 as an independent.

Echiko Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Echiko Maeda: is a Japanese volleyball player and Olympic champion.She was a member of the Japanese winning team at the 1976 Olympic games.

Hideki Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideki Maeda: is a former Japanese football player. He has played for Japan national team.

Masafumi Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masafumi Maeda: is a Japanese football player currently playing for Thespa Kusatsu.

Osamu Maeda            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Osamu Maeda: is a former Japanese football player. He has played for Japan national team.