Famous People with Name Takeya

Takeya Nakamura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takeya Nakamura: an infielder for the Seibu Lions in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Nicknamed "Okawari-kun" for his large frame, he has developed into one of Japan's premier power hitters. Playing his first full season in 2008, Nakamura belted a league and career-high 46 home runs, although he only batted .244. So far in the 2009 season, Nakamura has 29 home runs in 74 games

Mikiko Takeya            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Mikiko Takeya: is a Japanese sprint canoer who has competed since the mid 2000s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she earned her best finish of fifth in the K-2 500 m event at Beijing in 2008.

Michio Takeyama            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Michio Takeyama: was a Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar of German literature, active in Showa period Japan.On returning home in 1932, Takeyama taught German language as a professor at First Higher School, and also translated works of German literature into Japanese. Among the works he translated were Goethe's An Anthology, Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra and Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography by Albert Schweitzer.