Famous People with Name Sachio

Sachio Otani            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Sachio Otani: a noted Japanese architect.Otani was born in Tokyo, and in 1946 graduated from the University of Tokyo. He began his career in Kenzo Tange's studio, where he helped design the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (1955). In 1960 he started his own practice, and has subsequently designed a number of memorable buildings including the Tokyo Children's Cultural Center (1964), Kyoto International Conference Center (1966), the Kanazawa Institute of Technology (1969), and the Kawaramachi housing project in Kawasaki, Kanagawa (1970).

Sachio Semmoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Sachio Semmoto: the current Chairman and CEO of eAccess and eMobile, a Japanese telecommunication company.Semmoto has also served on the Board of Directors for Softbank and the Sega Corporation. Semmoto received his Bachelor's degree from Kyoto University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Florida.[1]

Sachio Kinugasa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Sachio Kinugasa: a former Japanese baseball player, nicknamed Tetsujin, meaning Iron Man.He passed Lou Gehrig's world record for consecutive games played in 1987. This record was later broken by Cal Ripken, Jr. in 1996.Kinugasa was born to an African American father and a Japanese mother.[1][2] He entered the Heian high school in Kyoto, and advanced to the Japanese National High School Baseball Championship twice in his senior year as a catcher. He was signed by the Hiroshima Carp in 1965, and spent several years in the minors before being converted to first base in 1968. He became the team's regular first baseman, hitting 21 home runs with a .276 batting average. In 1975

Ito Sachio            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Ito Sachio: was the pen-name of a tanka poet and novelist in Meiji period Japan. His real name was Ito Kojiro.His interest in poetry led him to visit the famous author Masaoka Shiki, who accepted him as a student. Ito established the literary magazine Araragi in 1903, and served as its editor until 1908. During this time, he published his poems, literary criticism and studies on the Man'yoshu. He published a sentimental love story, Nogiku no haka ("The Wild Daisy", 1906) in the literary magazine Hototogisu. The story became a popular classic, and was made into movies in 1955, 1966 and in 1981.