Famous People with Name Minoru

Minoru Kihara            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Kihara: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Kumamoto, Kumamoto and graduate of Waseda University, he was elected for the first time in 2005 after working at Japan Airlines until 2004.

Minoru Terada            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Terada: a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature) as a member of the Liberal Democratic Party. A native of Hiroshima Prefecture and graduate of the University of Tokyo he joined the Ministry of Finance in 1980, attending Harvard University in United States while in the ministry. Leaving the ministry in 2004 he was elected for the first time in the same year.

Minoru Nojima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Nojima: a Japanese classical pianist.Minoru Nojima was a child prodigy in Japan, won a major nationwide competition there as a teenager, studied with Lev Oborin in Moscow and then with Constance Keene and Abram Chasins in New York, and burst upon the international music scene as a winner of the Van Cliburn piano competition in 1969. Although known and highly respected amongst pianists as a "pianist's pianist," he is not well known to most music lovers, largely because he doesn't like to make recordings and has made extremely few.

Minoru Tatsukawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Tatsukawa: is a volleyball coach from Japan. Currentry he serves as head coach of Denso Airybees.1992 Assistant coach of Women's national volleyball team in the Barcelona Olympic games.

Minoru Takeuchi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Minoru Takeuchi: is a former volleyball player from Japan, who played as a wing-spiker for the Men's National Team during the 1990s. He ended up in 10th place at the 1998 World Championship.