Famous People with Name Makoto

Makoto Kakegawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Makoto Kakegawa: Saitama Prefecture is a Japanese football goalkeeper currently playing for J1 team Shimizu S-Pulse.

Makoto Tanaka            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Makoto Tanaka: a Japanese football player, who currently plays for the J-league team Jubilo Iwata.He was called up for Japan's 2006 World Cup squad, but had to withdraw after sustaining a thigh injury in the run-up to the tournament.

Makoto Kaneko            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Makoto Kaneko: the President, CEO and Representative Director of Zuken Inc., a public listed multinational corporation in the Tokyo Stock Exchange.Makoto Kaneko is better known as a prominent horse owner in Japan. He is the owner of one of the most famous racehorse Deep Impact, in Japanese history.

Makoto Sato            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Makoto Sato: was a Japanese documentary film maker. Among his best-known films were "Living On The River Agano" and "Self and Other."His final film, "Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said" (2005), was named Best Documentary at the 2007 Mainichi Film Awards.

Makoto Nakamura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Makoto Nakamura: a Japanese screenwriter of anime from Saitama, Japan.

Tomioka Makoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tomioka Makoto: was a Japanese author and terrorist. He was also known as Tetsu Nakahama. A member of the anarchist terrorist Guillotine Society which made two assassination attempts to avenge the murder of Sakae Osugi, Noe Ito, and Osugi's 6-year old nephew, by the military, on secret orders from Hirohito.He was executed for various anti-government acts, including a plan to assassinate Prince Hirohito.

Oda Makoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Oda Makoto: was a Japanese novelist, peace activist, academic and Time Asian Hero.[1]His travels through Europe and Asia on a budget of a dollar a day formed the basis of his 1961 bestseller Nandemo Mite yaro ("I'll go and see everything").[3] His first book Assatte no Shuki ("The Notebook of the Day After Tomorrow") was published in 1951. It was based on experiences during World War II and the Korean War.[4]Oda won the Lotus Prize in 1981 of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association for his book Hiroshima.[5] This led to a 1990 English translation as well as translations in French, Arabic, Italian, Korean and Russian. It was written about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only in Japan but on the Hopi Indians and Americans who lived near the testing sites.

Saito Makoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Saito Makoto: was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, two-time Governor-General of Korea from 1919 to 1927 and from 1929 to 1931, and the 30th Prime Minister of Japan from May 26, 1932 to 8 July 8, 1934.In 1884, Saito went to the United States for four years to study as a military attaché.In 1888, after returning to Japan, he served as a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff.