Famous People with Name Yoshikazu

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshikazu Yasuhiko: a well-known animator and mangaka in the anime industry.Yasuhiko dropped out of Hirosaki University and was hired by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions in 1970 as an animator. He later went freelance and worked on various animation productions for film and television. In 1981 he won the Seiun Award in Art category. He began working as a manga artist in 1988. In 1992 he won the Nippon Mangaka Kyokai (Japan Cartoonists Society) Award, and in 2000, an Excellence Prize in manga for Odo no Inu at the Japan Media Arts Festival. He is also known as a novelist and science fiction illustrator. Some of his most notable works as character designer and director are Brave Reideen, Combattler V, and Mobile Suit Gundam. Less well known is the fact that he was the original character designer for the Dirty Pair, long before their first anime or manga appearance, when he was illustrating the Haruka Takachiho short stories that became the 1980 fixup novel Great Adventures of the Dirty Pair.

Yoshikazu Uchida            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshikazu Uchida: was a Japanese architect and structural engineer. He designed many buildings on the campus of the University of Tokyo, and served as the 14th president of the university.Uchida was one of five 1907 graduates from the Department of Architecture of Tokyo Imperial University. For the next four years he worked as an architect in the real estate division of the Mitsubishi group. In 1910, he returned to Tokyo Imperial University for graduate studies under Toshikata Sano, the country's leading structural engineer and a pioneer in the study of earthquake resistant architecture.

Yoshikazu Iwamoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshikazu Iwamoto: a Japanese-born professional shakuhachi player living in the United Kingdom.

Yoshikazu Nagai            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshikazu Nagai: is a former Japanese football player. He holds the record for most appearances in Japan Soccer League First Division. His son Shunta is also a footballer. Nagai made 58 appearances for the Japan national football team from 1971 to 1979.

Yoshikazu Taru            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Yoshikazu Taru: is a Japanese professional wrestler who currently works for All Japan Pro Wrestling and El Dorado Wrestling. He joined Toryumon shortly after it opened and became one of the founding fathers of the Crazy MAX faction (CMAX for short) along with Shiima Nobu

Washuyama Yoshikazu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Washuyama Yoshikazu: is a former sumo wrestler from Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. He is now the head coach of Dewanoumi stable. Washuyama remained in the sumo world as a coach at his old stable, under the name Sakaigawa. In 1996 he assumed the Dewa