Famous People with Name Hideaki

Hideaki Tokunaga            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideaki Tokunaga: a Japanese popular singer-songwriter. In 1987, his album Birds reached the number-one position on the Oricon charts. In the late 1990s, however, his popularity once declined. He began to cover many songs such as Mika Nakashima's "Yuki no Hana". His 2007 album Vocalist 3 reached the number-one position, making it his first number-one album over 15 years.[1] In 2007, he also covered Noriko Awaya's "Farewell Blues" (??????? ,Wakare no Burusu?).[2]In the early 1990s, Tokunaga became well-known in the Philippines when the song "Saigo no Iiwake" or better known as "Ichiban" (from his 1989 album Realize) was covered in Tagalog as "Ikaw Pa Rin" by Filipino artist Ted Ito.[3]

Hideaki Wakui            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideaki Wakui: a starting pitcher for the Saitama Seibu Lions.The Lions' current staff ace, Wakui pitched for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2009 World Baseball Classic.[1][2]Wakui was born in Matsudo, a large city in Chiba Prefecture. He played softball in elementary school and began playing baseball in junior high for Matsudo Senior.

Hideaki Okabe            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideaki Okabe: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Hitachi, Ibaraki and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the assembly of Tochigi Prefecture in 2003 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2005.

Hideaki Tomiyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideaki Tomiyama: represented Japan in wrestling at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, and won the gold medal in the bantamweight division. He later coached the 2004 Athens Olympics wrestling team. He is currently the head coach of the Nihon University wrestling team.

Hideaki Yanagida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hideaki Yanagida: is a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.