Famous People with Name Susumu

Susumu Kuno            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Susumu Kuno: a Japanese linguist and author. He is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. degree in 1964 and spent his entire career. He received his A.B. and A.M. from Tokyo University where he received a thorough grounding in linguistics under the guidance of Shiro Hattori. His postgraduate research focused on the Dravidian languages. It was through Shigeyuki Kuroda, an early advocate of Chomskyan approaches to language, that Kuno undertook his first studies in transformational grammar. In 1960 he went to Harvard to work on a machine translation project.

Susumu Matsushima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Susumu Matsushima: is a Japanese photographer famous for portraits of women, fashion photography, and nudes.He studied at Tokyo Koto Kogei Gakko (????????, later incorporated within Chiba University), where a fellow-student was Gen Otsuka. On graduating in 1933, he joined Jiji Shinpo-sha, but soon quit and moved to Nikkatsu, where he worked as a photographer of stills, especially portraits of women, which he also submitted to Photo Times and other photographic magazines.

Susumu Ishikawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Susumu Ishikawa: an anison and seiyu who has performed many anime openings, including 1964 hit theme song from Obake no Q-taro and the theme from the 1972 anime series Dokonjo Gaeru. He performed songs in Godzilla vs. Gigan, and is the voice of the main character called P

Susumu Hani            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Susumu Hani: a Japanese film director, and one of the most prominent representatives of the 1960s Japanese New Wave. Born in Tokyo, he has directed both documentaries and feature films. One of his most famous movies is Nanami: The Inferno of First Love (??·??? - Hatsukoi Jigokuhen, 1968), which Hani co-scripted with Terayama Shuji.

Susumu Ono            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Susumu Ono: was a Tokyo-born linguist, specializing in the early history of the Japanese language Kokugogaku. He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1943, where he studied under Shinkichi Hashimoto. He was professor emeritus at Gakushuin University.Ono is best remembered by fellow professional linguists for his great work, following in the trailblazing wake of his mentor Hashimoto Shinkichi, on the Kana spelling system and phonology of Old Japanese, published in 1953. He became known to the general reading public with his popular book, The Origins of the Japanese language 1957, which, together with Kindaichi Haruhiko's The Japanese Language

Toki Susumu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Toki Susumu: is a former sumo wrestler from Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was komusubi. He is now a sumo coach. Toki began his career in January 1991 after joining the Takasago stable. Just like ex-sekiwake Takamiyama, who was a member of the sam