Famous People with Name Akai

Takami Akai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takami Akai: an illustrator, game creator, character designer and animator born on November 21, 1961 in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. He was a board member of Gainax, and runs his own company titled NineLives. His wife is the mangaka Kimiko Higuchi. He stepped down from Gainax board after an incident in which he and another employee made disparaging remarks about fan criticisms made on the Japanese Internet forum 2channel.[1]

Hirotsugu Akaike            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hirotsugu Akaike: is a Japanese statistician. In the early 1970s he formulated an information criterion for model identification which has become known as the Akaike information criterion.

Michiyo Akaishi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Michiyo Akaishi: an Japanese manga artist born on October 11, 1959 in Urawa (now Saitama), Saitama Prefecture, Japan.[1] She graduated from Saitama Prefectural Dai-Ichi Girls High School. Akaishi then attended Musashino Art University where she graduated with a degree in commercial plastic model design. In 1979, she won first place in the Shogakukan Shinjin Comic Award contest.