Famous People with Name Takashi

Takashi Ishimoto            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Ishimoto: is a retired butterfly swimmer from Japan, who won the silver medal in the men's 200 m butterfly at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. In the late 1950s he broke the world record in the men's 100m butterfly several times.

Takashi Hosokawa            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Hosokawa: a Japanese male Enka singer . His long career is well known and Takashi has become one of the most popular Enka singers in Japan.

Takashi Nakamura            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Nakamura: an accomplished Japanese animator and anime director. It was his work on Ougan Senshi Goldlightan that helped inspire fellow animator Koji Morimoto.His 2001 film A Tree of Palme was an official selection of the Berlin Film Festival.

Takashi Miike            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Miike: a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions.Miike's first films were television productions, but he also began directing several direct-to-video V-Cinema releases. (These were purportedly financed as money-laundering operations for the yakuza, although there has never been any conclusive proof of this.[citation needed]) Miike still directs V-Cinema productions intermittently due to the creative freedom afforded by the less stringent censorship of the medium and the riskier content that the producers will allow.

Takashi Shimizu            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Takashi Shimizu: a Japanese film director, best known for the Ju-on series of horror films.

Masuda Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Masuda Takashi: was an entrepreneur in Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period Japan, responsible for transforming Mitsui into a zaibatsu through the creation of a general trading company, Mitsui Bussan. He also established a newspaper, the Chugai Shogyo Shimpo (???????), which was later renamed the Nihon Keizai Shimbun.Masuda accompanied Ikeda Nagaoki in the unsuccessful 1863 Second Japanese Embassy to Europe to negotiate the cancellation of the open-port status of Yokohama. On his return he studied English at the Hepburn School (the forerunner of Meiji Gakuin University).

Hara Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Hara Takashi: was a Japanese politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Japan from 29 September 1918 to 4 November 1921. He was also called Hara Kei (or Hara Satoshi) informally. He was the first commoner appointed to the office of prime minister of Japan. His catch phrase as a politician was "commoner and prime minister" (????, heimin saisho?).

Tsujii Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Tsujii Takashi: a Japanese author and poet, and the pen name of Tsutsumi Seiji, a major business leader.Tsujii is the son of Yasujiro Tsutsumi, founder of the Seibu Railway company and a long-serving member, and eventually speaker, of Japan's House of Representatives. He was born in Tokyo and, after receiving his degree in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1951, began work as a secretary to his father. He took on a series of executive roles, culminating in corporate leadership, including serving as chairman of the Saison group of companies, whose brands include Seibu Department Stores, Seiyu supermarket, Wave (a music shop), Parco (shopping complex) and Loft (a variety store).

Bushuyama Takashi            Origin/Culture/Country: Japanese

Bushuyama Takashi: is a Japanese sumo wrestler from Aomori, Aomori Prefecture. He made his professional debut in January 1999. At the age of 32, he was promoted to the top makuuchi division in the November 2008 tournament. His highest rank has been maegashira 3. As his club