Famous People with Name Yoichiro

Yoichiro Kakitani            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoichiro Kakitani: a Japanese football player who currently plays for the J-league team Cerezo Osaka. In 2006, he signed his first professional contract with the club at 16. He is currently a member of the U-17 Japan national football team and was named Most Valuable Player in AFC U-17 Championship 2006 after he helped Japan win the tournament, scoring 4 goals. [1] Kakitani scored two goals at 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in South Korea. Against France he scored a spectacular goal from the halfway line.

Yoichiro Nambu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoichiro Nambu: a Japan-born American physicist, currently a professor at the University of Chicago. Known for his contributions to the field of theoretical physics, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.[1]He is famous for having proposed the "color charge" of quantum chromodynamics, for having done early work on spontaneous symmetry breaking in particle physics, and for having discovered that the dual resonance model could be explained as a quantum mechanical theory of strings. He is accounted as one of the founders of string theory. He has won numerous honors and awards including the J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize, the U.S.'s National Medal of Science, Japan's Order of Culture, the Planck Medal, the Wolf Prize, the Franklin Institute's Franklin Medal, the Dirac Medal, and the Sakurai Prize.

Yoichiro Morikawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoichiro Morikawa: a Japanese Independent film director, screenwriter and actor. He gained media attention when he was arrested and charged on suspicion of paying a 17-year-old girl for sexual services in March 2006. [1] [2] [3]

Yoichiro Kawaguchi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoichiro Kawaguchi: a Japanese computer graphics artist, professor at the University of Tokyo. Kawaguchi rose to international prominence in 1982 when he presented "Growth Model" in the international conference SIGGRAPH.