Japanese Famous Names Starting with Letter N

Was a Japanese haikai poet. He was born in Kanazawa, and spent most of his life in Kyoto working as

Was a Japanese haikai poet. He was born in Kanazawa, and spent most of his life in Kyoto working as a doctor. Boncho was one of Matsuo Basho's leading disciples and, together with Kyorai, he edited the Basho school's Monkey's Raincoat (Sarumino) anthology

Is a Japanese footballer who plays for Thespa Kusatsu in the J. League Division 2. He is the first J

Is a Japanese footballer who plays for Thespa Kusatsu in the J. League Division 2. He is the first Japanese footballer to play and score in Copa Libertadores.

A Japanese film director.

A Japanese film director.

Is a Japanese gravure idol, and a female talent. She is from Aichi, belongs to the show-business pro

Is a Japanese gravure idol, and a female talent. She is from Aichi, belongs to the show-business production 'Yume Kikaku'. Her nickname is 'Kojocho' (means a factory manager), derives from her handle name of the official blog. She graduated from 'Kunitachi College of Music' (in Japan), and plays the piano.

A Japanese pop singer and was the leader of W, a J-pop duo group, a former fourth generation member

A Japanese pop singer and was the leader of W, a J-pop duo group, a former fourth generation member of J-pop idol group Morning Musume, and a former founding member of Morning Musume subgroup Mini Moni. She has participated in the shuffle groups 10-nin Matsuri, Odoru 11, and 11Water, H.P. All Stars, as well as being a member of the Morning Musume splinter group Morning Musume Otomegumi.

She regularly dances with Akiyuki Kido. They are the three time Japanese national champions. They pl

She regularly dances with Akiyuki Kido. They are the three time Japanese national champions. They placed 15th at the Torino Olympics.

Is a Japanese international footballer currently playing as a midfielder for L. League club INAC Kob

Is a Japanese international footballer currently playing as a midfielder for L. League club INAC Kobe Leonessa. She played at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Nozomu Kato (born October 7, 1969 in Japan) is a Japanese football player.

Nozomu Kato (born October 7, 1969 in Japan) is a Japanese football player.

Was a Japanese businessman who was the founder of the Pioneer Corporation. He was born in Kobe, Japa

Was a Japanese businessman who was the founder of the Pioneer Corporation. He was born in Kobe, Japan in 1906. He founded the Fukuin Shokai Denki Seisakusho company in Osaka in 1936. In 1937 he created the A-8 speaker which he christened 'Pioneer'. Matsumoto relocated to Tokyo in 1938 and started a small factory which repaired radios and speakers. After the war the company expanded rapidly and in 1961 the name was changed to Pioneer Electronic Corporation, and it was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Matsumoto died in 1988 at the age of 83.

The founder of the now-defunct Nova Corporation, previously the major eikaiwa (private school for co

The founder of the now-defunct Nova Corporation, previously the major eikaiwa (private school for conversational English) provider in Japan. After graduating from high school, Sahashi went to Paris to attend university and majored in physics although it took him five years to complete a two-year course. The award status of his degree is unknown.[2]Sahashi spent several years jobless after returning from France[2] before founding Nova in 1981 with two foreign English teachers.[3] He is the inventor of Nova's particular teaching method, "The NOVA System Concept", which he patented. The Concept is perhaps most comparable to the direct method of language instruction, although Sahashi's method pivots on the interaction with and the repeating of an instructor who was a native speaker.

Was a government official and journalist in Meiji period Japan.Numa was involved in scholarship at a

Was a government official and journalist in Meiji period Japan.Numa was involved in scholarship at an early age. He learned English from James Curtis Hepburn in Yokohama, and was later sent to study western military science at Nagasaki. He translated a text on English-style infantry warfare in 1866, and in 1867, he was commissioned as a hohei-gashira nami (????; roughly equivalent to a lieutenant) in the Shogunate's elite Denshutai unit. Numa fought on the Tokugawa side in the Boshin War.