Famous People with Name Munenori

Munenori Kawasaki            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Munenori Kawasaki: a shortstop for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.[1] He played for the Japanese national team in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as the 2006[2] and 2009 World Baseball Classics.Kawasaki was born in Aira, a town in central Kagoshima Prefecture in the south of Japan. He began playing baseball after his older brother got him into the sport. Though he was a pitcher throughout his early years, Kawasaki switched to shortstop after enrolling in Kagoshima Prefectural Technical High School.

Count Terashima Munenori            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Count Terashima Munenori: was a diplomat in Meiji period Japan.After the Meiji Restoration, Terashima was appointed a san'yo (junior councilor) in the new Meiji government. In 1873, he was appointed foreign minister, and negotiated the Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1875), which fixed the national boundaries between Japan and the Russian Empire. His efforts to re-negotiate the unequal treaties with the United States failed at the last minute due to British opposition. Terashima was also responsible for the negotiations during the Maria Luz Incident involving a Peruvian ship carrying indentured labor Chinese laborers stopping in Japan.