Famous People with Name Saburo

Saburo Kitajima            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Saburo Kitajima: a well known Japanese Enka singer, lyricist and composer.When he was about to graduate from high school, he decided to become a singer. His debut single was called Bunkacha-Bushi, which was released in 1962.He has many famous songs, including Kita no Saka

Saburo Okita            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Saburo Okita: was a Japanese economist and government official. Okita graduated from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo). In 1937 he worked as an engineer with the Ministry of Posts. Later on he would hold numerous government positions, including chief of research for the Economic Stabilization Board in 1947, chief of the economic cooperation unit for the Economic Planning Agency in 1953 and later director general of their planning bureau in 1957, and then in 1963 the director general of the EPA development bureau. In each of these positions he played an important role under the economic plan of then prime minister Ikeda Hayato, which greatly helped Japan's postwar economy. In 1964 Okita became the president of the Japan Economic Research Centre, and later served as its chairman from 1973 to 1979. From 1979 to 1980 he served as the minister of foreign affairs, and continued to be one of Japan's foremost academic spokemen.[1] He subsequently held numerous other positions including President Of International University of Japan and as an advisor to the ministry of foreign affairs in 1982, and in 1989 as chairman of the Institute for Domestic and Policy Studies in Tokyo.

Saburo Ohmura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Saburo Ohmura: a Nippon Professional Baseball player for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan's Pacific League.

Saburo Ito            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Saburo Ito: a Japanese breaststroke swimmer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he finished fifth in the 200 metre breaststroke event.

Saburo Komoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Saburo Komoto: a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Aioi, Hyogo and graduate of Nihon University, he was elected to the House of Councilors for the first time in 1992 as a member of Morihiro Hosokawa's Japan New Party and then to the House of Representatives for the first time in 1996.

Takagi Saburo            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takagi Saburo: was a Japanese diplomat and businessman of the Meiji period, and the first Japanese Consul General to New York.The son of a samurai from Shonai Domain, Takagi entered naval training school in 1859, and after that studied abroad in the United States. Following his studies, he remained in the United States, and served as diplomatic secretary beginning in 1871. He resigned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, however, in 1880, and became director of a silk company in Yokohama. His company was famous for its efforts to improve sericulture methods and techniques of the spinning industry.

Peter Alexandrovich Saburov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Peter Alexandrovich Saburov: was a diplomat, collector of ancient Greek sculpture and antiquities, and a strong amateur chess player and patron of chess tournaments, as an honorary President of the St Petersburg Chess Club.