Famous People with Name Yoko

Yoko Ogawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Ogawa: a Japanese writer.She was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya with her husband and son. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In 2006 she co-authored "An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics" with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.

Yoko Tawada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Tawada: a Japanese writer currently living in Berlin, Germany.Tawada was born in Tokyo, received her undergraduate education at Waseda University in 1982 with a major in Russian literature, then studied at Hamburg University where she received a master's degree in contemporary German literature. She received her doctorate in German literature at the University of Zurich. In 1987 she published Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts—Anata no iru tokoro dake nani mo nai (A Void Only Where You Are), a collection of poems in a German and Japanese bilingual edition.

Yoko Kando            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Kando: a retired female butterfly swimmer from Japan, who competed for her native countryi at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.

Yoko Koikawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Koikawa: a retired female backstroke swimmer, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She is best known for winning the gold medal in the Women's 200m Backstroke event at the 1995 Summer Universiade in her hometown Fukuoka.

Yoko Komiyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoko Komiyama: a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Shibuya, Tokyo and graduate of Seijo University, she worked at the public broadcaster NHK from 1972 to 1998. She was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1998 and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in April 2003.