Famous People with Name Hisashi

Hisashi Kimura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hisashi Kimura: was a Japanese astronomer originally from Kanazawa, Ishikawa.[1] He devoted his career to the study and measurement of variation in latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo Chandler, who discovered the Chandler wobble. He was director of the International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa, Japan.

Hisashi Yamada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hisashi Yamada: was a Japanese baseball submarine pitcher for the Hankyu Braves in Nippon Professional Baseball from 1969 to 1988.Yamada won the Pacific League MVP for 3 years in a row (1976 to 1978), and the Japan Series MVP in 1977. He was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006.[1]

Hisashi Jogo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hisashi Jogo: is a Japanese footballer who plays for Avispa Fukuoka in the J. League Division 2.

Hisashi Kaneko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hisashi Kaneko: is a former Japanese football player. He has played for Japan national team.

Hisashi Kato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hisashi Kato: is a Japanese football manager and former player. He currently coaches Japanese club Kyoto Sanga F.C.. Kato made 43 appearances for the senior Japan national football team from 1978 to 1987 including 7 matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup qualifying rounds

Imai Hisashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Imai Hisashi: the lead guitarist and founding member of the Japanese rock band BUCK-TICK since 1985.The two musician friends (Imai Hisashi and Maki Fujii) collaborated for a song in 1991 and a few live shows. The enjoyed it so much they went on to do an album. For the album, Fujii recruited his friend Raymond Watts, whom is known for his solo work as Pig and collaborations with such artists as KMFDM. Fujii was able to get many guest musicians to work with Schaft.

Tanaka Hisashige            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tanaka Hisashige: was a Japanese engineer and inventor during the late Edo and Meiji period Japan. He is one of the founders of what later became Toshiba Corporation. He has been called the "Thomas Edison of Japan" or " Karakuri Giemon". [1]Tanaka was born in Kurume, Chikugo province (present day Fukuoka prefecture) as the eldest son of a tortoise shell craftsman. A gifted artisan, in his youth he studied the design and construction of karakuri dolls, mechanical automatons capable of relatively complex movements, which were then much in demand by the aristocrats of Kyoto, daimyo in various feudal domains, and by the Shogun’s court in Edo. At the age of twenty-one, he performing around the country at festivals with clockwork dolls he constructed himself.